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Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Clupeiformes (Herrings) > Engraulidae (Anchovies) > Engraulinae
Etymology: Engraulis: Greek, eggraulis, -eos = anchovy (Ref. 45335); maeoticus: Named for the antique Meotian people that used to inhabit the banks of the Azov Sea..

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Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic. Subtropical

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Meditteranean: apparently along the shoreline of Camargue in NW Mediterranean Sea; Mauguio, Prevost, and Thau lagoons in southern France; northern Adriatic Sea.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 9.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 76782)

This species is observed in brackish lagoons from the start of spring to the end of summer; leaves the lagoons in autumn to the nearby coastal marine waters (see Ref. 126017:598). It is presumed to spawn in lagoons in the summer (based on the observation of concentrations of small-sized anchovies together with large densities of eggs in the Thau lagoon, southern France, in July and on the presence of sexually mature individuals, 8-9 cm SL, in the Mauguio and Prevost lagoons, southern France, observed as early as May. In the northern Adriatic Sea, it lives at salinities less than 38 psu and depths less than 50 m (Ref. 76782).

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Bonhomme, F., L. Meyer, C. Arbiol, D. Bănaru, L. Bahri‐Sfar, K. Fadhlaoui‐Zid, P. Strelkov, M. Arculeo, L. Soulier, J. Quignard and P. Gagnaire, 2022. Systematics of European coastal anchovies (genus Engraulis Cuvier). J. Fish Biol. 100(2):594-600. (Ref. 126017)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 125652)

Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 13 June 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00244 - 0.04107), b=3.04 (2.81 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.0 ±0.1 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Engraulis maeoticus Pusanov & Zeeb, 1926