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Other common names for this fish include conger, dog eel, [1] poison eel [1] and sea eel. [1] It is a marine fish with a widespread distribution in the Western Atlantic from Cape Cod in Massachusetts to northeastern Florida in United States and the northern Gulf of Mexico , and is also reported from near the mid-Atlantic island of St. Helena ...
The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden (thus the name). [2] The family includes over 220 species in 32 genera.
Conger (/ ˈ k ɒ ŋ ɡ ər / KONG-gər) is a genus of marine congrid eels. [2] It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to 2 m (6 ft) or more in length, [ 3 ] in the case of the European conger.
Congroidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels.These eels are mostly marine, although a few species of snake eel will enter freshwater, and they are found in tropical and tempareate waters throughout the world. [2]
Gnathophis nystromi (known commonly as the conger eel [3]) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was described by David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder in 1901, originally under the genus Leptocephalus . [ 6 ]
The eel is named in honor of the "renowned" American ichthyologist David G. Smith, of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for his contribution to eel systematics.
The grey conger (Conger esculentus), also known as the Antillean conger or simply the conger eel, [2] is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). [3] It was described by Felipe Poey in 1861. [ 4 ]
The margintail conger [3] (Paraconger caudilimbatus) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). [4] It was described by Felipe Poey in 1867, originally under the genus Echelus . [ 5 ] It is a subtropical , marine eel which is known from the western Atlantic Ocean , including the United States ( North Carolina and Florida ), Bahamas ...