Bascanichthys
| Bascanichthys | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Genus: | Bascanichthys D. S. Jordan and B. M. Davis, 1891 |
| Species | |
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Bascanichthys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
- Bascanichthys bascanium (D. S. Jordan, 1884) (Sooty eel)
- Bascanichthys bascanoides R. C. Osburn & Nichols, 1916 (Sooty sand-eel)
- Bascanichthys ceciliae Blache & Cadenat, 1971
- Bascanichthys congoensis Blache & Cadenat, 1971
- Bascanichthys cylindricus Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 (Round sand-eel)
- Bascanichthys deraniyagalai Menon, 1961 (Indian longtailed sand-eel)
- Bascanichthys fijiensis (Seale, 1935)
- Bascanichthys filaria (Günther, 1872)
- Bascanichthys inopinatus McCosker, E. B. Böhlke & J. E. Böhlke, 1989
- Bascanichthys kirkii (Günther, 1870) (Longtailed sand-eel)
- Bascanichthys longipinnis (Kner & Steindachner, 1867)
- Bascanichthys myersi (Herre, 1932)
- Bascanichthys panamensis Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 (Panama sand-eel)
- Bascanichthys paulensis Storey, 1939
- Bascanichthys pusillus Seale, 1917
- Bascanichthys scuticaris (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1880) (Whip eel)
- Bascanichthys sibogae (M. C. W. Weber, 1913)
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Bascanichthys in FishBase. June 2011 version.