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Sooty Eel
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Other fish (coast and sea)

Sooty Eel

Bascanichthys bascanium (Jordan, 1884)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishSooty Eel
Dutch—
SpanishTieso tiznado
Chinese褐蛇鳗
Scientific nameBascanichthys bascanium (Jordan, 1884)

About this species

The sooty eel (Bascanichthys bascanium) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by David Starr Jordan in 1884, originally under the genus Caecula. 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).

The sooty eel is preyed on by the Atlantic tripletail.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderAnguilliformes
FamilyOphichthidae
GenusBascanichthys

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