Fish of the Synodus genus of the Synodontidae (lizardfishes) family of the Synodontoidei suborder of the Aulopiformes order of the Cyclosquamata superorder.
(Atlantic lizardfish. Photo © biologiamarina.org)
Atlantic lizardfish (Synodus saurus) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
It inhabits the depths of 400 meters, usually up to 20 meters. It keeps to the sandy or sandy-rocky bottom. The maximum recorded length is 40 cm, specimens up to 20 cm long are more common. It feeds on fish, as well as other animals.
(Atlantic lizardfish. Photo by © Pedro Niny Duarte(c)ImagDOP. fishbase.org)
It is a permanent inhabitant of the coastal waters of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of Atlantic lizardfish (Synodus saurus) in other languages are as follows:
Peshku hardhucë atlantike (Albanian), Σκαρμός (Scarmòs) (Greek), Pez de San Francisco (Spain), Pesce lucertola (Italian), Grüner Eidechsenfisch (German), Jaszczurnik atlantycki (Polish), Lagarto-da-costa (Portuguese), Европейский ящероголов (Evropejskij yascherogolov) (Russian), Gušter (Croatian, Serbian), Zurna balığı (Turkish), Poisson-lézard de l’Atlantique (French).