The Longtailed sand-eelCommon names for Bascanichthys kirkii at www.fishbase.org. (Bascanichthys kirkii) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).Bascanichthys kirkii at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Albert Günther in 1870, originally under the genus Ophichthys.Günther, A., 1870 (25 June) [ref. 1995] Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549 It is a marine, tropical eel, which is known from Aden to Natal, South Africa, in the western Indian Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of .
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