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Dusky Anchovy

Anchoa lyolepis

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alabama.January 221, February 240, March 252, April 441, May 311, June 203, July 168, August 161, September 214, October 227, November 181, December 186.
United States4,714
Alabama2,807
Mississippi600
Texas119
North Carolina58
Louisiana40
South Carolina14
Virginia13
New Jersey9
Georgia8

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderHerrings · Clupeiformes
FamilyAnchovies · Engraulidae
GenusAnchoa

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