| Ronquillo's anchovy | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Engraulidae |
| Genus: | Stolephorus |
| Species: | S. ronquilloi
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| Binomial name | |
| Stolephorus ronquilloi Wongratana, 1983
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Stolephorus ronquilloi, the Ronquillo's anchovy, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. It is found in the western-central Pacific Ocean.[2][3]
Size
This species reaches a length of 5.3 cm (2.1 in).[4]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of the Filipino marine biologist, Inocencio Aricayos Ronquillo (1918–?), who collected the type specimen and whose studies of Stolephorus led the way for the author, Wongratana.[5]
References
- ^ Hata, H., Santos, M., Deligero, R., Alcantara, M., Gapuz, A.V., Lanzuela, N., Buccat, F.G.A., Lopez, G., Villarao, M.C., Doyola, M.C., Gatlabayan, L.V., Tambihasan, A.M., Villanueva, J.A., Parido, L. & Belga, P.B. (2018). "Stolephorus ronquilloi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T180141A143830318. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T180141A143830318.en. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Four new species of Clupeoid fishes (Clupeidae and Engraulidae) from Australian waters by Thosaporn Wongratana Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100:104-111 (1987)i".
- ^ Whitehead, P.J.P., G.J. Nelson and T. Wongratana, 1988. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (Suborder Clupeoidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(7/2):305-579. Rome: FAO.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Stolephorus ronquilloi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family ENGRAULIDAE Gill 1861 (Anchovies)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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