Ammodytidae

Mediterranean sand eel

Gymnammodytes cicerelus

Seventeen Centimeters Eel of the Adriatic Sea

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Africa
• Europe
• Anguilliform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Gymnammodytes cicerelus, also known as Mediterranean sand eel, sonso in Catalan, and barrinaire or enfú in Menorca, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Ammodytidae, the sand lances and sand eels. It is the only species of this family in the Mediterranean Sea. It is found over sandy or gravelly substrates in the east-central Atlantic from Portugal to Senegal, including the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands, and into the Mediterranean Sea and eastwards into the Black Sea.