Sooty eel

Sooty eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Bascanichthys
Species: B. bascanium
Binomial name
Bascanichthys bascanium
(Jordan, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
  • Caecula bascanium Jordan, 1884
  • Leptocephalus gilberti Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1902

The Sooty eel[2] (Bascanichthys bascanium) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).[3] It was described by David Starr Jordan in 1884, originally under the genus Caecula.[4] It is a marine, subtropical eel which is known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including North Carolina and Florida, USA, and the Gulf of Mexico. It dwells at a depth range of 0 to 27 metres (0 to 89 ft). Males can reach a maximum total length of 70 centimetres (28 in).[3]

The Sooty eel is preyed on by the Atlantic tripletail.[5]

References

  1. Synonyms of Bascanichthys bascanium at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Common names of Bascanichthys bascanium at www.fishbase.org.
  3. 1 2 Bascanichthys bascanium at www.fishbase.org.
  4. Jordan, D. S., 1884 (22 Apr.) [ref. 10442] List of fishes from Egmont Key, Florida, in the Museum of Yale College, with description of two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 36: 42-46.
  5. Organisms Preying on Bascanichthys bascanium at www.fishbase.org.
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