Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Engraulidae > Stolephorus > Stolephorus indicus

Stolephorus indicus (Makassar fish; Indian anhovy; Indian anchovy; Hardenberg's anchovy; Anchovy)

Synonyms:
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Indian anchovy (Stolephorus indicus), also known as Hardenberg's anchovy, is a species of oceanodromous fish in the Engraulidae family. It is known as Handalla (හැදැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka, where it is widely sold at most markets and supermarkets. It is widely used as a live or dead bait in tuna fishery.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Prince Regent River Nature Reserve Ia 1428602 Western Australia, Australia  
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[2]

Predators

Scomberoides lysan (White fish)[2]
Terapon jarbua (Tiger-perch)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cucullanus karachii[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 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.
♦ 3Stomach content analysis of Terapon jarbua (Forsskal) from Parangipettai coast, South East Coast of India, Manoharan J, Gopalakrishnan A, Varadharajan D, Thilagavathi B and Priyadharsini S, Adv. Appl. Sci. Res., 2012, 3(5):2605-2621
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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