sand lance

Summary

sand lance is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (98 views/month, #1,546 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• sand lance's image is recorded as Ammodytes hexapterus.jpg^[3].
• sand lance's image is recorded as Northern sand lance.jpg^[4].
• sand lance's instance of is recorded as taxon^[5].
• sand lance's taxon rank is recorded as family^[6].
• sand lance's parent taxon is recorded as Trachinoidei^[7].
• sand lance's taxon name is recorded as Ammodytidae^[8].
• sand lance's Commons category is recorded as Ammodytidae^[9].
• sand lance's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09pp_j^[10].
• sand lance's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 84619^[11].
• sand lance's ITIS TSN is recorded as 171670^[12].
• sand lance's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 5381^[13].
• sand lance's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 43399^[14].
• sand lance's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 82280^[15].
• sand lance's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 8487^[16].
• sand lance's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 125516^[17].
• sand lance's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ammodytidae^[18].
• sand lance's code of nomenclature is recorded as International Code of Zoological Nomenclature^[19].
• sand lance's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0268562^[20].
• sand lance's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/sand-lance^[21].
• sand lance's this taxon is source of is recorded as Ammodytidae fish oil^[22].
• sand lance's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'silfamilien'}^[23].
• sand lance's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 2002039^[24].
• sand lance's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0329474^[25].
• sand lance's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3991172^[26].
• sand lance's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 85574^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for sand lance include USS Sand Lance^[28], a nuclear-powered attack submarine^[29].

Why It Matters

sand lance ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (98 views/month, #1,546 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for it include USS Sand Lance^[28], a nuclear-powered attack submarine^[29].