Gymnammodytes
| Gymnammodytes Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
| Mediterranean sand eel (G. cicerelus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Ammodytidae |
| Genus: | Duncker & Mohr, 1935 |
Gymnammodytes is a genus of sand lances native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the southwestern Indian Ocean along the coast of Africa.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Gymnammodytes capensis (Barnard, 1927) (Cape sand lance)
- Gymnammodytes cicerelus (Rafinesque, 1810) (Mediterranean sand eel)
- Gymnammodytes semisquamatus (S. Jourdain, 1879) (smooth sand eel)
The only known fossil member of this genus is Gymnammodytes oranensis Carnevale, 2004 from the latest Miocene (Messinian) of Algeria.[2]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gymnammodytes". FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ "New species of sand lance (Teleostei, Ammodytidae) from the Miocene of Algeria". Geodiversitas. 26 (2): 297–307. 2004.