Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Ammodytidae
Sand Lances
Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 2 taxa
- G Ammodytes16
- G Ammodytoides5
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125516")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125516'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-125516.json