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Ronquillo'S Anchovy

Stolephorus ronquilloi Wongratana 1983

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Diagnostic Description

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Belly with 4 to 7 small needle-like pre-pelvic scutes. Maxilla tip pointed, reaching to or beyond hind border of pre-operculum, the latter concave, indented near maxilla tip. Anal fin short, with origin below anterior part of dorsal fin base.
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 17 - 18
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Biology

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A schooling species found in coastal waters. Not common in museum collections, so perhaps not very abundant. More specimens and data needed.
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Stolephorus ronquilloi

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Stolephorus ronquilloi, the Ronquillo's anchovy, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. It is found in the Western Central Pacific Ocean.[1] [2]

Size

This species reaches a length of 5.3 cm (2.1 in).[3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of the Filipino marine biologist, Inocencio Aricayos Ronquillo (1918–?), who collected the type specimen and whose studies of Stolephorus led the way for the author, Wongratana.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Four new species of Clupeoid fishes (Clupeidae and Engraulidae) from Australian waters by Thosaporn Wongratana Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100:104-111 (1987)i".
  2. ^ Whitehead, P.J.P., G.J. Nelson and T. Wongratana, 1988. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (Suborder Clupeoidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(7/2):305-579. Rome: FAO.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Stolephorus ronquilloi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family ENGRAULIDAE Gill 1861 (Anchovies)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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Stolephorus ronquilloi: Brief Summary

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Stolephorus ronquilloi, the Ronquillo's anchovy, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. It is found in the Western Central Pacific Ocean.

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