Lance fish : A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.

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Taxonomy
sand lance, forage fish, WDFW, spawn, Washington, beach, Puget Sound basin, candlefish, Pacific sand lance, Puget Sound, shoreline, sand, unrelated species, deposition, intertidal zone, sand eel, Ammodytes hexapterus, populations.

Defination from the web:
lance fish are occasionally referred to as "candlefish", however, on the Pacific Coast "candlefish" correctly refers to the ... Life History:The sand lance is a common but poorly known near shore schooling fish in Washington waters. ...