Sand lance - Sand lance (English spelling)

Japanese: イカナゴ(鮊子) - イカナゴ（英語表記）sand lance

A marine fish of the Sandlanceidae family in the order Perciformes (illustration). It is found along the coasts from Hokkaido to Kyushu. In many regions, small ones are called kounago, and there are many other local names, such as kamasugo in Hyogo Prefecture, mero-odo in Sendai, and kanagi in northern Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture. The body is very slender and cylindrical, with no pelvic fin, and numerous skin folds running diagonally backward along the sides of the body. The back is bluish, but the sides and abdomen are silvery white. It has low mobility and there are several local populations with different morphologies. It swims during the day, but at night it lives a benthic life on the sandy bottom of the coast.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

スズキ目イカナゴ科の海産魚（イラスト）。北海道から九州までの沿岸に分布する。多くの地方で小型のものをコウナゴと呼ぶほか，兵庫県ではカマスゴ，仙台でメロオド，九州北部･山口県でカナギなど地方名も多い。体はたいへん細長く，円筒形で腹びれがなく，体側に斜め後方へ走る多数の皮褶がある。背部は青みがかっているが，体側と腹部は銀白色。移動性が小さく，形態の異なったいくつかの地方群がある。昼は遊泳生活をするが，夜間は沿岸の砂底で底生生活をする。

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