Longnose conger

Longnose conger
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Congridae
Genus:	Bathycongrus
Species:	B. wallacei
Binomial name
	Bathycongrus wallacei; (Castle, 1968)
Synonyms
	Congrina wallacei Castle, 1968; Rhechias wallacei (Castle, 1968); Bathycongrus baranesi Ben-Tuvia, 1993;

The Longnose conger^[2] (Bathycongrus wallacei) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).^[3] It was described by Peter Henry John Castle in 1968, originally under the genus Congrina.^[4] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Indo-Western Pacific, including Mozambique, Natal, South Africa, Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. It dwells at a depth range of 250-500 metres. Males can reach a maximum total length of 55 centimetres.^[3]

References

^ Synonyms of Bathycongrus wallacei at www.fishbase.org.
^ Common names for Bathycongrus wallacei at www.fishbase.org.
^ ^a ^b Bathycongrus wallacei at www.fishbase.org.
^ Castle, P. H. J., 1968 (Sept.) [ref. 7877] The congrid eels of the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University No. 33: 685-726.

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