Sooty eel
Appearance
Sooty eel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Ophichthidae |
Genus: | Bascanichthys |
Species: | B. bascanium
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Binomial name | |
Bascanichthys bascanium (Jordan, 1884)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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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 (2.3 ft).[3]
The sooty eel is preyed on by the Atlantic tripletail.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Synonyms of Bascanichthys bascanium at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Common names of Bascanichthys bascanium at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ a b Bascanichthys bascanium at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Organisms Preying on Bascanichthys bascanium at www.fishbase.org.