Engraulis
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161827 via WoRMS external link
Engraulis is a genus of anchovies, currently containing 9 species. 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.W CalCOFI holds 51,170 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 51,170
- observations
- 137,782
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 3
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Engraulis mordax most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125724")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125724'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Engraulis mordax most observed
- sp Engraulis mordax Northern anchovy137,767
- sp Engraulis ringens Peruvian anchovy15
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Engraulinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · juan.jeri.vidal · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Engraulis ringens · source
- Photo · Beth Hoffman · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Engraulis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1329333307
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗