Anchovy Northern, Engraulis mordax

Marine vertebrates, including fishes and elasmobranchs, have low zinc concentrations in tissues (i.e., 6 to 400 mg/kg DW) when compared to marine plants and invertebrates (Eisler 1980, 1981, 1984). Highest concentrations in muscle of marine fishes (20.1 to 25.0 mg/kg FW) were recorded in northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) and Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus NAS 1979). 

R.D. Vetter, A. Kurtzman, T. Mori (1999). Diel cycles of DNA damage and repair in eggs and larvae of northern anchovy Engraulis mordax, exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation. Photochem. Photobioi, 69, 27-33. 

J.R. Hunter, J.H. Taylor, H.G. Moser (1979). Effect of ultraviolet irradiation on eggs and larvae of the northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, and the Pacific mackerel. Scomber japonicus, during the embryonic stage. Photochem. Photobiol, 29,325-338. 

Lefebvre, K.A., Dovel, S.L., and Silver, M.W., Tissue distribution and neurotoxic effects of domoic acid in a prominent vector species, the Northern anchovy Engraulis mordax.. Mar. Biol., 138, 693, 2001. 

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