Species: Bascanichthys bascanoides, Sooty sand-eel

pale line along D base

Bascanichthys bascanoides Osborn & Nichols, 1916
Sooty sand-eel
Head, trunk & tail rounded; head and trunk about equal to tail length; eye small (~ 7% of head length); front nostril tubular; tip of lower jaw behind base of front nostril; snout short, blunt, grooved on underside; jaw teeth small, conical, in 1 row; gill openings vertical, length = snout, distance between bases of openings slightly < opening length; pectoral fin a small, narrow-based skin flap opposite upper half of gill opening, length of pectoral fin = width of its base; dorsal and anal fins low; dorsal origin midway between gill opening & eye; tip of tail finless, hard, pointed.
Preserved fish: Red-brown above, fading to yellowish on belly; snout & lower jaw dusky; dorsal & anal pale, a pale streak along entire base of dorsal fin; lateral line pores on head not in white spots.
Size: 77 cm.
Habitat: sandy bottoms.
Depth: 0-20 m.
Southern Baja and the central Gulf of California; Cocos Is.

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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- 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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- Estuary
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 77
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 20