Engraulis mordax
Northern anchovy
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161828 via WoRMS external link
The Californian anchovy or northern anchovy is a species of anchovy found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Mexico to British Columbia.W CalCOFI holds 51,155 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as egg and larva.R
- 51,155
- observations
- 137,767
- records
- 77,491
- sampling events
- 1951–2023
- years
- 3
- datasets
- egg · larva
- life stages
- 24.8 cm
- max length
Observed in 3 datasetsi
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Engraulis mordax · code
engraulis_mordax -
name used: Engraulis mordax Northern anchovy · code
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name used: Engraulis mordax · code
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272286
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:272286")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:272286'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 24.8 cm max · hatching 2.5–3 mm
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Life stages egg · larva
- CUFES Fish Eggs egg
- Ichthyoplankton larva · egg
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Engraulis
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
- Silhouette · Tessa Rehill · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Engraulis mordax · source
- Photo · Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Image ID: nur00009, National Undersearch Research Program (NURP) Collection Credit: OAR (NOAA:United States Department of Commerce)/National Undersea Research Program (NURP) Downloaded from: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/nur00009.htm [dead link] [search of pages with this image: https://phys.org/news] · Public domain · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Californian anchovy” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372301010
- Length · worms_attribute
- Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗