Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Engraulidae > Stolephorus > Stolephorus commersonnii

Stolephorus commersonnii (Commerson's anchovy; Devis's anchovy; Long-jawed anchovy; Teri anchovy; Tropical anchovy; White-bait; Anchovy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Commerson's anchovy (Stolephorus commersonnii), also known as Devis's anchovy, Long-jawed anchovy, Teri anchovy, is a species of anadromous fish in the Engraulidae family. It is known as Haalmassa (හාල්මැස්සා) in Sri Lanka, where it is widely used as a nutrient rich fish meat. It is widely used as a live or dead bait in tuna fishery.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Anadromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve 123722 Viet Nam  
Shankou Mangrove Wetland Reserve 19768 Guangxi, China  

Predators

Istiophorus platypterus (Atlantic sailfish)[2]
Sarda orientalis (Striped tuna)[3]
Trichiurus lepturus (Atlantic Cutlassfish)[4]
Trichiurus margarites (hairtail)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hexangium sigani[5]
Neomazocraes commersonii[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Dietary composition of the sailfish Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw & Nodder, 1792) from Parangipettai, southeast coast of India, V. Ravi and V. Sekar, J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India, 52 (1) : 102 - 104, January - June 2010
♦ 3Studies on the Food of Euthynnus affinis affinis (Cantor), Auxis thazard (Lacepede), Auxis thynnoides Bleeker and Sarda orientalis (Temminck and Schlegel), M. Kumaran, Symposium on Scombroid Fishes, 1962, Marine Biological Association of India, p. 599-606
♦ 4Feeding ecology of hairtail Trichiurus margarites and largehead hairtail Trichiurus lepturus in the Beibu Gulf, the South China Sea, YAN Yunrong (颜云榕), HOU Gang (侯刚), CHEN Junlan (陈骏岚), LU Huosheng (卢伙胜), JIN Xianshi (金显仕), Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, Vol. 29 No. 1, P. 174-183, 2011
♦ 5Gibson, 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