Species: Bascanichthys inopinatus, Unexpected eel
Bascanichthys inopinatus McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989
Unexpected eel
Body very elongate; head and trunk 52-57% of TL; tip of tail finless, hard, blunt; head skin rough; eye small; snout short, blunt, grooved on underside; front nostril tubular, rear nostril opens in mouth; jaw teeth small, conical, in 1 row on jaws, 2 rows on roof of mouth, those between top jaws exposed when mouth is closed; gill opening crescent-like, at lower side; dorsal and anal fins low; dorsal origin before gill opening; pectoral fin small, narrow based, width 36-37% of gill opening; lateral line complete, lines of each side of head connected by 2 canals with across top of head.
Body sharply bicolored; brown above, pale below lateral line, with some pigment below mid-side; head dark; fins pale, scattered dark pigment along base of dorsal fin; lateral line pores dark at front, in pale spots at rear.
Reaches 81.3 cm.
Sandy bottoms.
Depth: 40 m.
Known only from Puerto Rico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species..
- Island (s)
- Antilles endemic
- GC endemic
- Island (s) only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Min
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- Depth Range Max
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- 40
- Length Max
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- 81.3
