| Ophichthidae (Snake eels), subfamily: Ophichthinae |
| 47.7 cm TL (male/unsexed) |
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demersal; marine |
| Western Central Atlantic: Caribbean, Colombia. |
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This species isi distinguished by the following characters: elongate, markedly bicolored, dark brown dorsally and light brown almost cream ventrally, head and snout are dark, fins pale without marks, sex unrecognized; proportions as % of TL: head 4.6-5.3, trunk 47.9-51.7, tail 43.8-47.9; depth (at gill opening) 1.2-1.5; depth (at anus) 1-1.1; predorsal length 2.1-2.4; snout 12.4-12.7; eye 4.1-5.5; interorbital width 6.9-9.7; pectoral-fin length 6.4-7.0 mm; pores SO 1 + 3, IO 4 + 2, POM 4 + 2, STC 3; pectoral fin minute, its base corresponding to 12.3-24.7% of gill-opening length; uniserial mandibular teeth (Ref. 116651). |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435)
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| harmless |
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Type locality of Bascanichthys gaira, Santa Marta, Bahía de Gaira. All the specimens were collected in Gaira Bay (11º10’11'' N, 74º13’14'' W), inside the stomach of mature females of Bancroft’s numbfish Narcine bancroftii, fished as bycatch of the local beach seine fisheries (Ref. 116651). |
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