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Gymnammodytes cicerelus (Smooth sand lance; Mediterranean sand eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gymnammodytes cicerelus, also known as Mediterranean sand eel, sonso in Catalan, and barrinaire or enfú in Minorca, is a fish in the Ammodytidae family. It is the only species of this family in the Mediterranean Sea. Its maximum size is 17 cm. It is highly appreciated as food in certain areas of Italy, as well as in Catalan cuisine where it is fried after being slightly coated in batter.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Karadagskiy Zapovednik Nature Zapovednik 13876 Ukraine  

Predators

Raja miraletus (Brown ray)[1]
Raja polystigma (Speckled ray)[1]
Sarda sarda (Stripe-backed pelamis)[2]
Synodus saurus (Atlantic lizardfish)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding ecology of demersal elasmobranchs from the shelf and slope off the Balearic Sea (western Mediterranean), MARIA VALLS, ANTONI QUETGLAS, FRANCESC ORDINES and JOAN MORANTA, Scientia Marina 75(4) December 2011, 633-639, Barcelona (Spain)
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Diet of Atlantic lizardfish, Synodus saurus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pisces: Synodontidae) in the central Mediterranean Sea, Valentina Esposito, Pietro Battaglia, Luca Castriota, Maria Grazia Finoia, Gianfranco Scotti and Franco Andaloro, Scientia Marina 73(2) June 2009, 369-376
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0