{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | name = Pacific anchovy | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 21 December 2023">{{cite iucn |author=Hata, H. 2017 |date=2017 |title=''Stolephorus pacificus'' |volume=2017 |article-number=e.T99008295A99008343|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T99008295A99008343.en |access-date=21 December 2023}}</ref> | taxon = Stolephorus pacificus | authority = W. J. Baldwin, 1984 }}
'''''Stolephorus pacificus''''', the '''Pacific anchovy''', is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. It is found in the western-central Pacific Ocean.<ref>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.</ref>
==Size== This species reaches a length of {{convert|7.7|cm|in|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{FishBase |genus= Stolephorus |species= pacificus | month = February | year = 2015}}</ref>
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pacificus Category:Taxa named by Johann Dietrich Franz Hardenberg Category:Fish described in 1984
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