Endangered
Anchovy sprat
Clupeonella engrauliformis
Anchovy sprat is a ray-finned fish in the family Clupeidae (order Clupeiformes) — Clupeonella engrauliformis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The abdomen of the achovy sprat is rounded with a keel, in that there are 23-31 keeled scales. There are 56-67 gill rakers. The dorsal fin has 13-21 soft rays with the first three being unbranched. The anal fin has 18-22 soft rays with the first three also unbranched. The tail fin is almost black and strongly notched.
The maximum body length is 16.5 cm, with a mass up to 26 g.
The achovy sprat was first described by ichthyologist N.
Range and habitat
It is one of several species of Clupeonella found in the Central and Southern Caspian Sea. It lives pelagically in the central and southern parts of this brackishwater lake. It may be found down to a depth of 78 m (256 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The basis of its diet consists of copepods, and it feeds on zooplankton during the daytime, especially Eurytemora grimmi. It spawns in the open sea at depths greater than 20 m in the upper layers of water.
Spawning is partial, stretching from May to November. The larval stage continues until the spring of the year following spawning.
In crisis
Anchovy sprat is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Anchovy sprat, Wikidata item Q2331965. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
