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Species
sand lances
Family
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyAmmodytidae
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Trachinoidei
- Image
- Northern sand lance.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ammodytidae
- taxon name
- Ammodytidae
- taxon rank
- family
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Ammodytidae
- taxon common name
- silfamilien
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Encyclopedic overview
A common tern with a sand lance, Biddeford Pool, ME - August 2013
A sand lance or sandlance is a ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ammodytidae. Several species of sand lances are commonly known as "sand eels", though they are not related to true eels. Another variant name is launce, and all names of the fish are references to its slender body and pointed snout. The family name (and genus name, Ammodytes) means "sand burrower", which describes the sand lance's habit of burrowing into sand to avoid tidal currents.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sand lance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.