Ammodytidae
Sand Lances
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171670 via WoRMS external link
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.W CalCOFI holds 21 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 2011, across 3 taxa under it.R
- 21
- observations
- 21
- records
- 1998–2011
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 3
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Ammodytes most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125516")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125516'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Ammodytes most observed
- G Ammodytes16
- G Ammodytoides5
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Uranoscopoidei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Ammodytes tobianus · source
- Photo · Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Sand lance” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1308545329
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗