Japanese anchovy
Japanese anchovy | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Clupeiformes |
Family: | Engraulidae |
Genus: | Engraulis |
Species: | E. japonicus
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Binomial name | |
Engraulis japonicus | |
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The Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) is a schooling fish of the family Engraulidae. It is common in the Pacific Ocean south from the Sea of Okhotsk, widespread in the Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea, and near the coasts of Japan. They live up to 2–3 years, similar to European anchovy. They spawn from Taiwan to southern Sakhalin.
Gallery[]
Dried Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonica) at the market
Dried dae-myeolchi (large anchovies)
Dried jung-myeolchi (medium anchovies)
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Categories:
- Engraulis
- Fish of Japan
- Fish of Korea
- Marine fauna of East Asia
- Anchovies
- Taxa named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck
- Taxa named by Hermann Schlegel
- Fish described in 1846
- Clupeiformes stubs