#2159 · 🐟 fish
Big-scale Sand Smelt
🇳🇱 Kleine koornaarvis ·Atherina boyeri
📍 Provincia di Oristano, Italia
📍 Akbük Koyu - Gökova, Kultak, Unnamed Road,, 48220 Menteşe/Muğla, Türkiye
📍 Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR
📍 QC94+2GG, Pafos 8045, Cypr
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Roberto Pillon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Roberto Pillon · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Roberto Ghiglia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Tiago Carrapiço · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Provincia di Oristano, Italia:© Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Akbük Koyu - Gökova, Kultak, Unnamed Road,, 48220 Menteşe/Muğla, Türkiye:© wingwatcher48 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR:© Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. QC94+2GG, Pafos 8045, Cypr:© Szymon Bzoma · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The big-scale sand smelt ( Atherina boyeri ) is a species of fish in the Atherinidae family. It is a euryhaline amphidromous fish, up to 20 cm in length.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,715 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Antoine Risso in 1810 (216 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Big-scale Sand Smelt
- Nederlands
- Kleine koornaarvis
- scientific name
- Atherina boyeri
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Atheriniformes
- family
- Atherinidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 996
- sightings worldwide
- 1,715
- GBIF records in NL
- 705
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1810 by Antoine Risso
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Atherinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 94786, Wikidata Q301035, GBIF 2411944, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.