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Cuban anchovy (Anchoa cubana)
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Cuban anchovy (Anchoa cubana) specimen
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Engraulidae

Cuban anchovy

Anchoa cubana

Dense schools crowd beaches shallower than one meter

  • Tropical
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Central America and the Caribbean
  • North America
  • South America
  • Elongated
  • Small
  • Tropical fish

Cuban anchovy is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 10 cm.

Genus
Anchoa
Maximum length
10 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
elongated
Distribution
Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA to northern Gulf of Mexico; Cuba and probably throughout the Greater and Lesser Antilles; Yucatan, Mexico to at least Santos, Brazil.
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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