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small, forked. Pectorals inserted low. No ventral fins. Vent 
inserted behind middle of body. 
Small carnivorous fishes swimming in large schools near the 
shore and burying themselves in the sand along the coasts of 
northern regions. 
Genus AMMopyTEs Linnzus. 
The Sand Launces. 
Ammedytes americanus De Kay. 
Sand Lance. 
Head 5%; depth 1234; D. 60; A. 1, 30; scales about 145 in a 
lateral series to base of caudal; 3 scales between base of dorsal 
and lateral line; about 12 scales in a vertical series between origin 
of anal and lateral line; mandible 214 in head; caudal 2?/,; 

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Sand Lance. Ammodytes americanus De Kay. 
pectoral 244; least depth of caudal peduncle 6%; snout 3% in 
head, measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 7; maxillary 3%; 
interorbital space 724. Body elongate, lanceolate and rather cy- 
lindrical. Head attenuate, compressed. Snout conic, long. 
Eye a little elongate, its center in first 24 of head. Mouth a little 
inclined, long, and mandible well produced. Rami of mandible 
well elevated inside mouth. Maxillary slender, reaching orbit. 
Interorbital space flattened. Gill-rakers 5 + 24, very slender, 
long, longest nearly equal to horizontal orbital diameter. Skin 
with many transverse folds obliquely downward and backward 
and small cycloid scales in cross series between. Lateral line con- 
current and close to dorsal profile. A low dermal fold along 
each side of belly. Dorsal inserted a trifle before tip of pectoral. 
Anal inserted a little nearer tip of caudal than origin of pectoral. 
Caudal emarginate. Pectoral small. Mostly silvery, olive above. 
Length 8% inches. Cape May. 
