buccaneer anchovy

Encrasicholina punctifer

Engraulid Fish in Indo Pacific

Tropical
Transcontinental
Marine fish
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
East Asia
Oceania
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Fusiform
Small
Tropical fish

Encrasicholina punctifer, known as the buccaneer anchovy, or in Hawaiian as nehu, is an anchovy of the family Engraulidae that is widespread in the Indo-Pacific.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Herrings
Family: Engraulidae
Genus: Encrasicholina
Maximum length: 13 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and Persian Gulf south to perhaps Durban in South Africa, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and probably Burma. Also from southern Japan to China, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia south to Brisbane, Australia, Japan eastward to Hawaii, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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