Broadband anchovy

Anchoviella lepidentostole

One female carried more than twenty thousand eggs

Broadband anchovy is a marine fish found around Western Atlantic. It inhabits estuaries and brackish water. Records give a maximum length of 18 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Herrings
Family: Engraulidae
Genus: Anchoviella
Maximum length: 18 cm
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Orinoco delta in Venezuela south to Ponta da Cotinga, Paraná coast of Brazil.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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