Bathycongrus thysanochilus

Bathycongrus thysanochilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Anguilliformes
Family:Congridae
Genus:Bathycongrus
Species: B. thysanochilus
Binomial name
Bathycongrus thysanochilus
(Reid, 1934)
Synonyms[1]
  • Congrina thysanochila Reid, 1934
  • Rhechias thysanochila (Reid, 1934)

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

  1. ↑ Synonyms of Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ↑ Common names for Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. ↑ Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
  4. ↑ 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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