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Beth Hoffman, license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Clupeiformes
Family:
Engraulidae
Subfamily:
Engraulinae
Genus:
Engraulis
Species:
mordax
Common:
Californian anchovy
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
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Regions:
Pacific, Eastern Central
Pacific, Northeast
Whitehead, P. J. P., Blaxter, J. H. S. 1989. Swimbladder form in Clupeoid Fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 97(4): 299-372.
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