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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Engraulidae

Anchovies

WoRMS 125465ITIS 553173GBIF 7334key worms:125465
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553173 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matt Kolmann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Anchoa panamensis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Engraulidae
Photo · Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Anchovies are small, common forage fish of the family Engraulidae. Most species are found in marine waters, but several will enter brackish water, and some in South America are restricted to fresh water.W CalCOFI holds 46,923 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 7 taxa under it.R

46,923
observations
91,769
records
42
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
4
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 42 obs · 42 events · 1955–2006 · larva
    name used: Engraulidae Anchovies · code 25

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125465%22