Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 53 - 56; Anal soft rays: 26 - 31. Palate without pointed teeth. Lateral line branched. Margins of dorsal and anal fins undulated. Scales restricted to the posterior third of the body (Ref. 35388).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Uranoscopoidei

Family: Ammodytidae

Genus: Gymnammodytes

Species: Gymnammodytes semisquamatus (Jourdain, 1879)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Typically offshore over shell-gravel, also inshore where shell-gravel beaches occur. Feed on plankton. Summer batch spawner (Ref. 4674). By-catch in sand eel fisheries (Ref. 35388).

Habitat

demersal