Round sand-eel

round sand-eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Bascanichthys
Species: B. cylindricus
Binomial name
Bascanichthys cylindricus
Meek & Hildebrand, 1923

The Round sand-eel (Bascanichthys cylindricus) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).[1] It was described by Seth Eugene Meek and Samuel Frederick Hildebrand in 1923. It reaches a maximum length of around 88 cm. It is distributed throughout the Eastern Central Pacific; inhabiting shallow, sandy bottoms.

References

  1. Bascanichthys cylindricus at www.fishbase.org.
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