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Engraulidae
Shorthead hairfin anchovy
Setipinna breviceps
Engraulid Fish beneath the Indian Ocean
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Pacific Ocean
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Pacific Ocean
Elongated
MediumShorthead hairfin anchovy is known from Western Central Pacific as a migratory fish. It occurs in estuaries and brackish water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Engraulidae
- Genus
- Setipinna
- Maximum length
- 24 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Central Pacific: river mouths of Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sarawak, presumably also Java. Reported from India, Bangladesh and Myanmar (Ref. 45255 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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