Coilia nasus

Coilia nasus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Engraulidae
Genus: Coilia
Species: C. nasus
Binomial name
Coilia nasus
Temminck and Schlegel, 1846
Synonyms[1][2][3][4]

Coilia ectenes Jordan and Seale, 1905

Sashimi of etsu (Japanese name for Coilia nasus)

Coilia nasus,[1][2][3][4] also known as ungeo[5] and the Japanese grenadier anchovy is a fish from the family Engraulidae (anchovies). It grows to 41 cm (16 in) total length;[4][6] it is a relatively large species for its genus.[4] It is found in marine, freshwater, and brackish water at depths down to 50 m (160 ft). It is anadromous, moving to freshwater to spawn.[4][6] It is distributed in the northwest Pacific, between 21–42°N and 109–134°E,[6] or from Guangdong in China to the west coast of the Korean peninsula and the Ariake Sound in southwestern Japan.[4][5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke; R. van der Laan, eds. (30 June 2017). "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Coilia nasus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  3. 1 2 "Coilia nasus". The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Whitehead, Peter J.P.; Gareth J. Nelson; Thosaporn Wongratana (1988). FAO species catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, anchovies and wolfherrings. Part 2 - Engraulididae. Rome: Food & Agriculture Org. pp. 470–472.
  5. 1 2 "Ung-eo fish - Ark of Taste". Slow Food Foundation. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Coilia nasus" in FishBase. February 2017 version.


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