WoRMS taxon details

Encrasicholina punctifer Fowler, 1938

219982  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219982)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fowler, H. W. (1938). The fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 2: i-v + 1-349, Pls. 1-12. [details]   
Description A schooling species found inshore and in oceanic waters, hundreds of miles from land. Sometimes entering large atoll...  
Description A schooling species found inshore and in oceanic waters, hundreds of miles from land. Sometimes entering large atoll lagoons or deep, clear bays. Ranks among the most important food (bait) for tuna and other large pelagic fishes (Ref. 1602). Processed into nuoc-mam, a kind of fish pickle, in Indo-China (Ref. 4929).  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Encrasicholina punctifer Fowler, 1938. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219982 on 2024-04-16
Date
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1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description Fowler, H. W. (1938). The fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 2: i-v + 1-349, Pls. 1-12. [details]   

context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]   

basis of record Losse, G.F. (1968). The elopoid and clupeoid fishes of East African coastal waters. JEANHS 27(2): 77-115 [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description A schooling species found inshore and in oceanic waters, hundreds of miles from land. Sometimes entering large atoll lagoons or deep, clear bays. Ranks among the most important food (bait) for tuna and other large pelagic fishes (Ref. 1602). Processed into nuoc-mam, a kind of fish pickle, in Indo-China (Ref. 4929).  [details]
LanguageName 
English buccaneer anchovy  [details]
Japanese タイワンアイノコイワシ  [details]