Bascanichthys: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Bascanichthys
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Bascanichthys
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bascanichthys
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 cylindricus Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 (Round sand-eel)
- Bascanichthys deraniyagalai Menon, 1961 (Indian longtailed sand-eel)
- Bascanichthys fijiensis (Seale, 1935)
- Bascanichthys filaria (Günther, 1872)
- Bascanichthys gaira (Moreno, Acero P. & Grijalba-Bendeck, 2016) (Colombian sand eel)
- Bascanichthys inopinatus McCosker, E. B. Böhlke & J. E. Böhlke, 1989
- Bascanichthys kabeyawan Hibino & Ho, 2022 (Kabeyawan sand eel)
- 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 ryukyuensis Hibino, Yamashita & Sakurai, 2022 (Vine-like sand eel)
- Bascanichthys scuticaris (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1880) (Whip eel)
- Bascanichthys sibogae (M. C. W. Weber, 1913)
Bascanichthys in languages:
- Russian
- Басканихты
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Allips
- Aplatophis
- Aprognathodon
- Apterichtus
- Bascanichthys
- Brachysomophis
- Caecula
- Callechelys
- Caralophia
- Chauligenion
- Cirrhimuraena
- Cirricaecula
- Dalophis
- Echelus
- Echiophis
- Ethadophis
- Evips
- Gordiichthys
- Hemerorhinus
- Herpetoichthys
- Hyphalophis
- Ichthyapus
- Kertomichthys
- Lamnostoma
- Leiuranus
- Leptenchelys
- Letharchus
- Lethogoleos
- Leuropharus
- Luthulenchelys
- Malvoliophis
- Myrichthys
- Mystriophis
- Ophichthus
- Ophisurus
- Paraletharchus
- Phaenomonas
- Phyllophichthus
- Pisodonophis
- Quassiremus
- Rhinophichthus
- Scytalichthys
- Stictorhinus
- Suculentophichthus
- Xestochilus
- Xyrias
- Yirrkala
Child Taxa
- Bascanichthys bascanium
- Bascanichthys bascanoides
- Bascanichthys ceciliae
- Bascanichthys cylindricus
- Bascanichthys deraniyagalai
- Bascanichthys fijiensis
- Bascanichthys filaria
- Bascanichthys gaira
- Bascanichthys inopinatus
- Bascanichthys kabeyawan
- Bascanichthys kirkii
- Bascanichthys longipinnis
- Bascanichthys myersi
- Bascanichthys panamensis
- Bascanichthys paulensis
- Bascanichthys pusillus
- Bascanichthys ryukyuensis
- Bascanichthys scuticaris
- Bascanichthys sibogae























