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Engraulidae
shorthead anchovy
Encrasicholina heteroloba
Engraulid Fish in New Caledonia
shorthead anchovy is known around Indo-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 12 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Engraulidae
- Genus
- Encrasicholina
- Maximum length
- 12 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to northern Madagascar and the Bay of Bengal; southern Japan and northern coast of Australia to the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

