Raitt's Sand Lance
(Ammodytes marinus)
Image source: Erling Svensen / Ocean Photo/Artsdatabanken
General data
Scientific names:
Raitt's Sand Lance
Habitat:
Saltwater
Climates:
Temperate, Subpolar
Native to coast of:
Europe
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).
Max length: 25 cm TL
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 56-63; Anal soft rays: 29 - 33.
Scales absent from a median band anterior to the dorsal fin and from the musculature at the base of caudal fin. Belly scales loosely arranged, not in chevrons. Vertebrae 65-75. Margins of dorsal and anal fins straight with rays of equal length. Lateral line pores linearly arranged along the unbranched canals.
