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Engraulidae
key anchovy
Anchoa cayorum
Silver striped anchovy schooling along Caribbean coasts
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Elongated
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
Smallkey anchovy is known around Western Central Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in coastal waters, and records give a maximum length of 11 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Engraulidae
- Genus
- Anchoa
- Maximum length
- 11 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: Florida Keys, Cuba, Bahamas, Antilles, Los Roques Archipelago off Venezuela; from Yucatan, Mexico possibly to western Venezuela; not in Gulf of Mexico. If correctly identified, then it occurs in Sibun River, Belize.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
