Bathycongrus thysanochilus
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Congridae |
Genus: | Bathycongrus |
Species: | B. thysanochilus
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Binomial name | |
Bathycongrus thysanochilus (Reid, 1934)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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The Conger eel[2] (Bathycongrus thysanochilus) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).[3] It was described by Earl Desmond Reid in 1934, originally under the genus Congrina.[4] 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
- ^ Synonyms of Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Common names for Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ 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.