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Sand Eels
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Sand Eels

Hypoptychidae

The Hypoptychidae, the sand-eels, are a small family of gasterosteiform fishes native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Tubenoses

genusAulichthys

Korean Sandlances

genusHypoptychus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85835.