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Congridae

9 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Anguilliformes › Congridae

Heteroconger longissimus, the brown garden eel, is a tropical marine eel in the Congridae family found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Heteroconger hassi, the spotted garden eel, is a small spotted eel that lives in sandy-bottom colonies in the Indo-Pacific.

Conger verreauxi, the southern conger, is a marine conger eel found around Australia and New Zealand, growing up to 2 meters long.

The Cape conger (Conger wilsoni) is an Indo-Pacific Congridae conger that grows up to 1 m long.

Conger conger, the European conger, is the world's heaviest eel, a nocturnal predator found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Conger cinereus, the moustache conger, is an eel species found in coastal Indo-West Pacific habitats.

Conger oceanicus, the American conger, is a large marine migratory eel that spawns in the Sargasso Sea.

Conger marginatus, the Hawaiian mustache conger, is a species of conger eel described in 1850 by Achille Valenciennes.

The bandtooth conger (Ariosoma balearicum) is a subtropical marine conger eel found across Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions.

Related Families

Muraenidae 43 species Ophichthidae 16 species Anguillidae 7 species

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