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Engraulidae
zabaleta anchovy
Anchovia clupeoides
Adults use over one hundred gill rakers to filter plankton
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- South America
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Fusiform
Mediumzabaleta anchovy is a fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits estuaries and brackish water. The largest recorded length is 30 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Engraulidae
- Genus
- Anchovia
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: in the Antilles, from Cuba and perhaps throughout; Guatemala south and east to Venezuela and Trinidad, south to just north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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