See this post on Sandlance on Taylor Beach:
One of the unusual characteristics of sandlance on Taylor Beach is that in less thAN a minute after emerging from the sand after spawning, If they are not consumed by crows or gulls, then they will die. ( so far I have not found this reported in the literature?)
Kingdom: Animalia |
Phylum: Chordata |
Class: Actinopterygii |
Order: Perciformes |
Family: Trachinoidea (Bonaparte, 1832) |
Genus: Ammodytes |
Species: A. hexapteris |
Binomial name Ammodytes hexapterus |