Lesser sand-eel (Ammodytes marinus)

Scientific name: Ammodytes marinus Raitt, 1934

Lesser sand-eel (Ammodytes marinus)

The Lesser sand-eel (Ammodytes marinus) is a brackish-water fish of the family Ammodytidae.

Biology

This schooling species is usually territorial and burrowing. 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.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Ammodytes marinus
Family
Ammodytidae (Sand lances)
Order
Perciformes (Perch-like fish)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
25.0
Environment
Marine; brackish; benthopelagic, usually 10 - 150 m
Climate
Temperate
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).
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: commercial
Resilience
Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.16-0.89; tm=1-3; tmax=10; Fec=4,000)

Sources

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

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