Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Engraulidae > Pterengraulis > Pterengraulis atherinoides

Pterengraulis atherinoides (Wingfin anchovy; Anchovy)

Synonyms: Clupea atherinoides; Clupea hepsetoides; Engraulis atherinoides
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Wikipedia Abstract

Pterengraulis atherinoides, the wingfin anchovy is a species of anchovy which is found along the Atlantic coast of South America from the Orinoco Delta to Ceará, Brazil. It is the only species in its genus.
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Prey / Diet

Acetes marinus[1]
Anchovia clupeoides (Zabaleta anchovy)[2]
Pachygrapsus gracilis (dark shore crab)[1]
Stellifer rastrifer (Yellow drum)[2]
Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (seabob)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Carcharhinus porosus (Small-tailed shark)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Contribution to the feeding ecology of the predatory wingfin anchovy Pterengraulis atherinoides (L.) in north Brazilian mangrove creeks, U. Krumme, H. Keuthen, M. Barletta, W. Villwock and U. Saint-Paul, J. Appl. Ichthyol. 21 (2005), 469–477
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0