Siboga snake eel
| Siboga snake eel | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Genus: | Bascanichthys |
| Species: | B. sibogae |
| Binomial name | |
| Bascanichthys sibogae (Weber, 1913) | |
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The Siboga snake eel (Bascanichthys sibogae) is an eel from the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber in 1913, originally under the genus Callechelys. It is a marine, tropical eel which is found off the south coast of Timor, Indonesia, in the western central Pacific Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 23.7 centimetres (9.3 in).