Congridae
Conger and garden eels Temporal range:
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Conger conger
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Suborder: | Congroidei |
Family: | Congridae Kaup, 1856 |
Subfamilies | |
Bathymyrinae |
The Congridae are the family of conger and 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).[1] The family includes over 180 species in 32 genera.
The
Anguilliformes order that includes it; it has been recorded at up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in length and weighing 350 lb (160 kg).[2]
Congrids are found in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas around the world. Clear distinguishing features among congrids are few; they all lack scales, and most possess
pectoral fins. They feed on crustaceans and small fish.[3]
The earliest known fossils of this group are otoliths from the Campanian of the United States.[4] A number of articulated specimens are known from the Paleogene of Europe.[5]
Genera
Family Congridae
- †Alaconger (2 species; otolith-based taxon; Late Cretaceous of the United States and Germany)
- †Bolcyrus (1 species, fossil; Eocene of Italy)
- †Early Paleoceneof the United States)
- †Voltaconger (1 species, fossil; Eocene of Italy)
- Subfamily Bathymyrinae
- Ariosoma (27 species)
- Bathymyrus (three species)
- Chiloconger (two species)
- Kenyaconger (one species)
- Parabathymyrus (five species)
- Paraconger (seven species)
- †Paracongroides (1 species, fossil; Eocene of Italy)
- †Pavelichthys (1 species, fossil; Oligocene of Russia)
- Subfamily Congrinae
- Acromycter (five species)
- Bassanago (four species)
- Bathycongrus (22 species)
- Bathyuroconger (two species)
- Blachea (two species)
- Castleichthys (one species)
- Conger (14 species)
- Congrhynchus (one species)
- Congriscus (three species)
- Congrosoma (one species)
- Diploconger (one species)
- Gnathophis (27 species)
- Japonoconger (three species)
- Lumiconger (one species)
- Macrocephenchelys (two species)
- Poeciloconger(one species)
- Promyllantor (three species)
- Pseudophichthys (one species)
- Rhynchoconger (seven species)
- Scalanago (one species)
- †Smithconger (one species, fossil; Eocene of Denmark)
- Uroconger (four species)
- Xenomystax (five species)
- Subfamily Heterocongrinae (garden eels)
- Gorgasia (14 species)
- Heteroconger (21 species)
See also
References
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- ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- ^ British Conger Club Archived 2005-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2008). "Congridae" in FishBase. December 2008 version.
- ISSN 2039-4942.
- doi:10.37570/bgsd-2022-70-05-rev.)
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