Genus of fishes
Bascanichthys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae . It currently contains the following species:[ 1]
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) [ 2] (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)
^ Froese, Rainer ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Bascanichthys " . FishBase . September 2024 version.
^ Moreno F.; Acero P. A.; Grijalba-Bendeck M. (2016). "Una Nueva Especie de Anguila de Arena del Género Bascanichthys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) del Caribe". Bol. investig. mar. Costeras (in Spanish). 45 (1): 7–14.