🐟European anchovy
歐洲鯷（学名：Engraulis encrasicolus）為鳀属的一種，分布於東大西洋區，包括地中海、黑海、亞速海、挪威至南非等海域，棲息深度可達400公尺，本魚吻突出，上頷短，前端圓鈍，體側具一銀色條紋，隨年齡增長而消失，背鰭軟條16-18枚，臀鰭軟條13-15枚，體長可達20公分，棲息沿海、河口，能忍受鹽度的變化，會進行洄游，以浮游生物為食，可做為食用魚或餌魚。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- 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
Everything we know about the European anchovy
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.02 kgaverageOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.
By sex
- Female0.02 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length0.14 mrecord 0.2 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan3 yearsrecord 5 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level3.12FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.12 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderClupeiformes
- ›familyEngraulidae
- ›genusEngraulis
- ›speciesEngraulis encrasicolus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- suborderClupeoidei
- familyEngraulidae
- subfamilyEngraulinae
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderClupeiformes
- suborderClupeoidei
- familyEngraulidae
- subfamilyEngraulinae
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