Encrasicholina

Encrasicholina oligobranchus

Taxonavigation: Clupeoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Clupei Superordo: Clupeomorpha Ordo: Clupeiformes Subordo: Clupeoidei

Familia: Engraulidae
Genus: Encrasicholina
Species: E. devisi – E. gloria – E. heteroloba – E. intermedia – E. macrocephala – E. oligobranchus – E. pseudoheteroloba – E. punctifer – E. purpurea – E. sigma

Name

Encrasicholina Fowler, 1938

• Type species: Encrasicholina punctifer Fowler, 1938

Etymology: diminutive of encrasicolus, Greek for a small fish and a name historically applied to anchovies. From The ETYFish Project

References

• Fowler, H. W. 1938. The fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: i–v + 1–349, Pls. 1–12. Reference page. 
• Hata, H. & Motomura, H. 2020. A new species of anchovy, Encrasicholina sigma (Teleostei, Clupeiformes, Engraulidae), from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Zootaxa 4750(2): 261–268. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.2.9 Reference page. 

Links

• Encrasicholina and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Encrasicholina species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.