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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Engraulis

WoRMS 125724ITIS 161827key worms:125724
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161827 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · juan.jeri.vidal · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Engraulis ringens

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 Engraulis
Photo · Beth Hoffman · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

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 46,785 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 2 taxa under it.R

46,785
observations
91,631
records
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125724")