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SpeciesClupeiformesEngraulidae
Fish

🐟European anchovy

Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ansjos eller europæisk ansjos (Engraulis encrasicolus) er en lille planktonspisende saltvandsfisk. Ansjosen forekommer langs det østlige af atlanterhavkysten, fra Sydnorge til Angola, samt i Middelhavet og Sortehavet. Ansjoser anvendes bl.a. til produktion af fiskeolie. Det anslås, at 43 % af den fiskeolie, der produceres, stammer fra ansjoser. Saltede ansjoser kaldes sardeller.

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Also called
anchovy, Anchovy, Black Sea Anchovy, Italian Sardel, South African Anchovy, Southern African Anchovy, Southern Anchovy
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
0.14 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
3 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the European anchovy

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kgaverage
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.

By sex

  • Female0.02 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length
0.14 mrecord 0.2 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
3 yearsrecord 5 years · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
3.12
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.12 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for European anchovy yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderClupeiformes
  4. ›familyEngraulidae
  5. ›genusEngraulis
  6. ›speciesEngraulis encrasicolus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. suborderClupeoidei
  3. familyEngraulidae
  4. subfamilyEngraulinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderClupeiformes
  10. suborderClupeoidei
  11. familyEngraulidae
  12. subfamilyEngraulinae
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In other languages
Engraulis encrasicolus (fr), Europäische Sardelle (de), ansjos (nb), Engraulis encrasicolus (es), sardelli (fi), Engraulis encrasicolus (it) … and 23 more languages
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