Atlantic sabretooth anchovy (Lycengraulis grossidens)

Scientific name: Lycengraulis grossidens Agassiz, 1829

Atlantic sabretooth anchovy (Lycengraulis grossidens)

The Atlantic sabretooth anchovy (Lycengraulis grossidens) is a freshwater fish of the family Engraulidae.

Biology

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13-14; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 21 - 28. Depth widely variable. Snout about 2/3 eye diameter; maxilla moderate, pointed, reaching onto sub-operculum. Gill rakers short, the longest not less than pupil diameter in adults. Dorsal fin origin behind midpoint of body; anal fin origin below 6th-8th branched dorsal fin rays. Silver stripe up to twice eye diameter at widest, lost in fishes over 10 cm SL. Curve of black dots on operculum. Grayish blue dorsally, fins yellowish with translucent membranes and a blackish caudal margin.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Lycengraulis grossidens
Family
Engraulidae (Anchovies)
Order
Clupeiformes (Herrings)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
23.5
Common length
20.0
Depth range
40 m (131 ft)
Environment
Marine; freshwater; brackish; pelagic-neritic; anadromous; depth range ? - 40 m
Climate
Subtropical
Distribution
Western Atlantic: Belize (but no southerly records until Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela); then from Gulf of Venezuela and Trinidad south to Argentina at Carmen de Patagones; also lower and sometimes middle parts of the Orinoco, the Amazon to above Manaus, and Paran? to about Corrientes, and in smaller rivers.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: minor commercial
Resilience
Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Assuming tmax>3)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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