Korean sandlance (Hypoptychus dybowskii)

Scientific name: Hypoptychus dybowskii Steindachner, 1880

Korean sandlance (Hypoptychus dybowskii)

The Korean sandlance (Hypoptychus dybowskii) is a marine fish of the family Hypoptychidae. Native range: North Pacific, Sakhalin, Russia to northern Japan.

Species facts

Scientific name
Hypoptychus dybowskii
Family
Hypoptychidae (Sand eel)
Order
Gasterosteiformes (Sticklebacks and Seamoths)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
10.0
Environment
Marine; benthopelagic
Climate
Temperate
Distribution
North Pacific: Sakhalin, Russia to northern Japan.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: commercial
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=3.6-4.0; tmax=1)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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