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Engraulis japonicus Temminck & Schlegel 1846

Description

Engraulis japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1846.

Japanese Anchovy. To about 16 cm (6.3 in) SL (Lindberg and Legeza 1965). western Pacific Ocean north to south-eastern Kamchatka; one record from Alaska, south of western Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Near surface, epipelagic and coastal, but also occurring to over 1,000 km (620 miles) from shore; depth: to 150 m (495 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Lindberg, G. U. & Legeza, M. I. (1965) Fishes of the Sea of Japan and the adjacent areas of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Yellow Sea. Part 2. Teleostomi. XII. Acipenseriformes - XXVIII. Polynemiformes. Handbook on the Identification of Animals, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy (84) (Translation by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1969.)