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Engraulidae (Anchovies) > Engraulinae
Etymology: Stolephorus: Greek, stole, -es = garment + Greek, pherein = to carry (Ref. 45335); eldorado: Name 'eldorado' refers to the mythical city of gold, it reflects the bright yellow colouration of the new species.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; pelagic-neritic. Tropical
Western Pacific: from Taiwan to Indonesia.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.9 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 130210)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Vertebrae: 38 - 40. This species is distinguished by the following characters: gill rakers on upper limb of 1st gill arch, 16-21 (modally 18), on lower limb 23-28 (25), total 40-47 (42); gill rakers on upper limb of 2nd gill arch 10-14 (13), on lower limb 20-24 (23), total 33-38 (rarely 30, modally 36); gill rakers on upper limb of 3rd gill arch 8-12 (modally 10), on lower limb 12-14 (13), total 20-26 (23); gill rakers on upper limb of 4th gill arch 7-10 (8), on lower limb 9-12 (11), total 16-22 (18); prepelvic scutes 5-7 (6); total vertebrae 38-40 (39); long maxilla, its posterior tip just reaching or slightly short of posterior margin of opercle; predorsal scutes present; pelvic scute without spine; body scales deciduous; posterior border of pre-opercle concave, indented; paired dark patch on parietal area with little following pigmentation; distinct double pigment lines along dorsum posterior to dorsal fin; black spots below eye and on lower-jaw tip absent; anal-fin base long, 19.0-22.3%
(20.4%) of SL; orbit rather long, 8.2-9.9% (8.9%) of SL; third dorsal-fin ray short,
15.9-18.6% (17.4%) of SL; pelvic fin rather long, 9.1-11.0% (10.0%) of SL, its posterior
tip usually not reaching to vertical through dorsal-fin origin when depressed in
individuals greater than 5.0 cm SL; distance between posterior ends of supramaxilla and maxilla 5.0-6.3% (5.6%) of SL (Ref. 130210).
This species is bundantly caught by trawl and marketed fresh in northern Vietnam and caught by set net as bycatch in south-western Taiwan (Ref. 130210).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Hata, H., S. Lavoué and H. Motomura, 2022. Description of three new species previously identified as Stolephorus bengalensis (Dutt & Babu Rao, 1959) or Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg, 1933 and a re-description of S. bengalensis (Chordata, Osteichthyes, Clupeiformes, Engraulidae). ZooKeys 1121(0):145-173. (Ref. 130210)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: commercial
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00501 (0.00220 - 0.01140), b=3.14 (2.96 - 3.32), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.2 ±0.4 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).
