"Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) is a schooling fish of the family Engraulidae. It is common in the Pacific Ocean south from the Sea of Okhotsk, widespread in the Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea, and near the coasts of Japan. They live up to 2\u20133 years, similar to European anchovy. They spawn from Taiwan to southern Sakhalin."@en . . "NE" . . "IUCN3.1" . . . . "* Engraulus japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1846" . "* Engraulis japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846" . "* Engraulis zollingeri Bleeker, 1849" . . "* Engraulis capensis (non Gilchrist, 1913)" . "* Atherina japonica Houttuyn, 1782" . "* Stolephorus zollingeri (Bleeker, 1849)" . "* Stolephorus celebicus Hardenberg, 1933" . . .