Bathycongrus thysanochilus

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Bathycongrus thysanochilus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Congridae
Genus: Bathycongrus
Species:
B. thysanochilus
Binomial name
Bathycongrus thysanochilus
(Reid, 1934)
Synonyms [2]
  • Congrina thysanochilaReid, 1934
  • Rhechias thysanochila(Reid, 1934)

The Conger eel [3] (Bathycongrus thysanochilus) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). [4] It was described by Earl Desmond Reid in 1934, originally under the genus Congrina . [5] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Cuba and Venezuela, in the western central Atlantic Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 476–659 metres.

References

  1. ↑ McCosker, J.; Smith, D.G.; Tighe, K. (2019). "Bathycongrus thysanochilus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 e.T199306A2580761. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T199306A2580761.en . Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Synonyms of Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. ↑ Common names for Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
  4. ↑ Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
  5. ↑ Reid, E. D., 1934 [ref. 16454] Two new congrid eels and a new flatfish. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections v. 91 (no. 15): 1-11, Pl. 1.


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