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Western Anchovy

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This anchovy reaches a length of 3 inches and occurs on the coast of southern California and southward.

It is locally very abundant and is, as its name indicates, a most delicate little food-fish.

Head 4 1/4; depth 4 3/4; D. 13; A. 23; scales 40. Head short, nearly as deep as long; eye large, much longer than the blunt snout which projects considerably beyond the lower jaw; gillrakers numerous, slender, nearly as long as eye; maxillary reaching past root of mandible; lower lobe of caudal the longer; dorsal inserted midway between base of caudal and front of eye. Colour, very pale olivaceous, translucent, with some dark points, and a silvery lateral band not as wide as eye.