Engraulis
| Engraulis | |
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| A school of Californian anchovies (E. mordax) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Engraulidae |
| Subfamily: | Engraulinae |
| Genus: | Engraulis Cuvier, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Clupea encrasicolus | |
| Species | |
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Engraulis is a genus of anchovies, currently containing 9 species.[2] Species in this genus are found in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea, and several of them are commercially important.
Species
[edit]Engraulis currently contains the following 9 species:[3]
- Engraulis albidus Borsa, Collet & J. D. Durand, 2004[4] (White anchovy)
- Engraulis anchoita C. L. Hubbs & Marini, 1935 (Argentine anchoita)
- Engraulis australis (Shaw, 1790) (Australian anchovy)
- Engraulis capensis Gilchrist, 1913 (Southern African anchovy)
- Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European anchovy)
- Engraulis eurystole (Swain & Meek, 1885) (Silver anchovy)
- Engraulis japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 (Japanese anchovy)
- Engraulis mordax Girard, 1854 (Californian anchovy)
- Engraulis ringens Jenyns, 1842 (Peruvian anchoveta)
Two fossil species are also assigned to this genus:[5]
- †Engraulis macrocephalus Landini & Menesini, 1978 - Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene of Italy
- †Engraulis tethensis Grande, 1985 - Late Miocene of Cyprus
Many other fossil species have been assigned to Engraulis, but a review of these specimens have found most to be far too fragmentary to be confidently assigned to this genus, and many may not even be clupeomorphs.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Engraulis". FishBase. August 2024 version.
- ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Engraulis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ↑ Philippe Borsa; Adeline Collet; Jean-Dominique Durand (2004). "Nuclear-DNA markers confirm the presence of two anchovy species in the Mediterranean". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 327 (12): 1113–1123. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2004.09.003. ISSN 1631-0691. PMID 15656354.
- 1 2 Grande, Lance; Grande, Lance (1985). Interrelationships of fossil and recent anchovies (Teleostei, Engrauloidea) and description of a new species from the Miocene of Cyprus. New York, N.Y: American Museum of Natural History.
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