WoRMS taxon details
Ammodytes dubius Reinhardt, 1837
151520 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151520)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Reinhardt, J.C.H. (1837). Ichthyologiske bidrag til den Grönlandske fauna. Indledning, indeholdende tillaeg og forandringer i den fabriciske fortegnelse paa Grönlandske hvirveldyr. <em>K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhandl.</em> 7: 83-196. [details]
Distribution Greenland to North Carolina
Distribution Greenland to North Carolina [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Ammodytes dubius Reinhardt, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151520 on 2025-03-29
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2006-07-18 06:32:47Z
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Camba Reu, Cibran
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Nomenclature
original description
Reinhardt, J.C.H. (1837). Ichthyologiske bidrag til den Grönlandske fauna. Indledning, indeholdende tillaeg og forandringer i den fabriciske fortegnelse paa Grönlandske hvirveldyr. <em>K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhandl.</em> 7: 83-196. [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on planktonic organisms especially copepods [details]Distribution Greenland to North Carolina [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat Bottom living species found to depths of 90 m, over sand bottoms. [details]
Importance Food for commercial fishes, including cod, haddock, yellowtail flounder [details]
Predators Atlantic cod, haddock, pollock, red hake, alewives (for complete list see www.fishbase.org) [details]
Reproduction Spawns from late November until before March [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | zandspiering | [details] |
| English | northern sand lance | [details] |
| French | lançon du nordlancon commun | [details] |
PlanktonNet Image
To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ammodytes dubius)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Ammodytes dubius, by Flescher, D.)
To GenBank (889 nucleotides; 49 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ammodytes dubius)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Ammodytes dubius, by Flescher, D.)
To GenBank (889 nucleotides; 49 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
