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title: "Amerikanische Sardelle"
description: "Engraulis mordax — Fische. The Californian anchovy or northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) is a species of anchovy found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Mexico to British Columbia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/northern-anchovy
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Amerikanische Sardelle

> Engraulis mordax — Fische. The Californian anchovy or northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) is a species of anchovy found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Mexico to British Columbia.

- Scientific name: *Engraulis mordax*
- Category: `fish` (Fische)
- Habitats: `sea` (Meer & Küste)
- iNaturalist observations: 1563
- Wikidata: [Q989747](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q989747)
- iNaturalist taxon: [63770](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/63770)

## Names

- en: Northern Anchovy
- de: Amerikanische Sardelle
- es: Anchoveta norteña
- nl: Noord-Amerikaanse ansjovis

## Countries with the most observations

US (936), CA (187), MX (3)

## Summary

The Californian anchovy or northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) is a species of anchovy found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Mexico to British Columbia. It is a small, Clupeoid fish with a large mouth and a long, laterally compressed body, which strongly resembles the European Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) with only slight differences in girth and fin position. They have a euryhaline lifestyle defined by regular migrations between bays and open ocean for both spawning and foraging. Like Pacific sardines (Sardinops sagax), they compose a large fraction of the marine biomass in waters off the west coast…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californian_anchovy

## Photo

![Amerikanische Sardelle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/northern-anchovy/medium.jpg)

Photo: Irene · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/241383994

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/northern-anchovy?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).