Hyperoplus lanceolatus (Le Sauvage, 1824)
Synonyms:
Ammodytes lanceolatus Le Sauvage, 1824, Bull. sci. Soc. philom. Paris, 1824: 141 (Calvados, Channel coast of France). Syntypes: MNHN no. B 1266, Caen.
Ammodytes tobianus (non Linn.): Cuvier, 1829, 2: 360 | Nilsson, 1855: 653 | Yarrell, 1859, 1: 89 (fig.) | Kändler, 1941: 45 et seq.
Ammodytes lanceolatus: Moreau, 1881, 3: 217 | Day, 1882: 329, pl. XCII (fig. I) | Smitt, 1895: 570, fig. 135, pl. XXIII (fig. 4) | Saemundsson, 1927: 33 | Duncker and Mohr, 1935: 217; 1939: 15, fig. 2a | Jenkins, 1936: 166, pl. 64 | Andersson, 1942, 1:107, pl. 32 | Poll, 1947: 267, fig. 171-172 | Albuquerque, 1956: 832, fig. 349A | Duncker (ed. Ladiges), 1960: 245, fig. 94 | Lozano Rey, 1960, 3: 264, fig. 104.
Hyperoplus lanceolatus: Andriashev, 1954: 322, fig. 182-183 | Wheeler, 1969: 378, fig.
Common names:
greater sand eel [UK and USA]
grosser Sandaal [Germany]
lançon [France and Belgium]
lanzon [Spain]
launce [UK and USA]
storsil [Norway]
tobiskonge [Denmark]
smelt [Netherlands and Belgium]