Engraulidae

Stolephorus indicus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Clupeoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Clupei Superordo: Clupeomorpha Ordo: Clupeiformes Subordo: Clupeoidei

Familia: Engraulidae
Genera (16): Amazonsprattus – Anchoa – Anchovia – Anchoviella – Cetengraulis – Coilia – Encrasicholina – Engraulis – †Eoengraulis – Jurengraulis – Lycengraulis – Lycothrissa – Papuengraulis – Pterengraulis – Setipinna – Stolephorus – Thryssa

Synonymized: Pseudosetipinna –

Name

• Engraulidae Gill, 1861: 55

References

Primary references

• Gill, T.N. 1861: Catalogue of the fishes of the eastern coast of North America, from Greenland to Georgia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 13 (Suppl.): 1–63. BHL
• Hata, H. & Motomura, H. 2015. A new species of anchovy, Encrasicholina macrocephala (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae), from the northwestern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 3941(1): 117–124. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.6 Reference page. 
• Lavoué, S. & Ho, H-C. 2017. Pseudosetipinna Peng & Zhao is a junior synonym of Setipinna Swainson and Pseudosetipinna haizhouensis Peng & Zhao is a junior synonym of Setipinna tenuifilis (Valenciennes) (Teleostei: Clupeoidei: Engraulidae). Zootaxa 4294(3): 342–348. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.3.4. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Afrand, M., Sourinejad, I., Fazeli, S.A.S., Akbarzadeh, A., Yaganeh, L.P., Sadeghi, M. & Azarbaijani, R. 2020. Morphological identification and molecular validation of anchovies (Engraulidae) in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. Zootaxa 4742(2): 375–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.2.10 Reference page. 
• Salimi, N., Loh, K.H., Dhillon, S.K. & Chong, V.C. 2016. Fully-automated identification of fish species based on otolith contour: using short-time Fourier transform and discriminant analysis (STFT-DA). PeerJ 4: e1664. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1664 Reference page. 

Links

• Engraulidae  and its species in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Genera of Engraulidae (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Sardellen
Ελληνικά: Γαύροι (Γάβροι)
eesti: Anšoovislased
magyar: Szardellafélék
日本語: カタクチイワシ科
polski: Sardelowate
ไทย: ปลากะตัก, ปลาแมว, ปลาหลังเขียว
Tagalog: Dilis
中文: 鯷科

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