Bathycongrus thysanochilus
| Bathycongrus thysanochilus | |
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| 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] | |
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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.
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