Gymnammodytes

Gymnammodytes Temporal range: Late Miocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Mediterranean sand eel (G. cicerelus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Ammodytidae
Genus:	Gymnammodytes 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

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gymnammodytes". FishBase . December 2012 version.
2. "New species of sand lance (Teleostei, Ammodytidae) from the Miocene of Algeria". Geodiversitas. 26 (2): 297–307. 2004.