Lesser sand-eel
| Ammodytes marinus Raitt, 1934 | ||||
| Family: | Ammodytidae (Sand lances) |
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| Order: | Perciformes/Uranoscopoidei | |||
| Class: | Teleostei | |||
| English name: | Lesser sand-eel | |||
| Distribution: | Northeast Atlantic: 74°N (Novaya Zemlya and Bear Islands) to 49°N (Channel Islands, western English Channel), including eastern Greenland, Iceland, Barents Sea (but not the White Sea) and the Baltic (but not the Gulf of Bothnia and Finland). | |||
| Adult biology: | This schooling species is usually territorial and burrowing (Ref. 40). Feed on plankton. High activity is correlated to periods with strong tidal currents; then they leave their bottom hides and form large shoals. During low light intensity (night and winter) they bury in the bottom (Ref. 35388). | |||
| Diagnosis: | By the growing of the postlarva appears a caudal vertical row of melanophores (14mm). One or two dorsal body melanophores appear in the caudal region (7mm), which will extend as far as the level of the anus (20mm).. See also LARVAE table. | |||
| Climate Zone: | temperate; 73°N - 49°N | |||
| Main Ref: | Russell, F.S.. 1976. (Ref. 37) | |||
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| Modified by: Froese, Rainer |
Entered by: Froese, Rainer |
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