Anchovia

Anchovia
Anchovia macrolepidota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Engraulidae
Subfamily:	Engraulinae
Genus:	Anchovia D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1895
Type species
Engraulis macrolepidotus Kner, 1863 [1]

Anchovia is a genus of anchovies. It currently contains 4 species. There are found in the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic ocean. ^[2]

• Anchovia clupeoides (Swainson, 1839) (Zabaleta anchovy)
• Anchovia landivarensis Greenfield & Greenfield, 1975
• Anchovia macrolepidota (Kner, 1863) (Bigscale anchovy)
• Anchovia surinamensis (Bleeker, 1865) (Surinam anchovy)

References

1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Engraulidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 17 November 2024.
2. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Anchovia". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 27 December 2025.

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Anchovia". FishBase . June 2011 version.