Gnathophis Grahami
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''Gnathophis grahami'', or Graham's conger,Common names for ''Gnathophis grahami''
at www.fishbase.org is an
eel Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...
in the family
Congridae The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large 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). The family i ...
(conger/garden eels).''Gnathophis grahami''
at www.fishbase.org.
It was described by
Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya Emma may refer to: * Emma (given name) Film * ''Emma'' (1932 film), a comedy-drama film by Clarence Brown * ''Emma'' (1996 theatrical film), a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow * ''Emma'' (1996 TV film), a British television film starring Kate Be ...
and
John Richard Paxton John Richard Paxton (born 1938) is a United States-born Australian ichthyologist, who spent most of his career at the Australian Museum. He has a particular research interest in lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) and other deep-sea fishes. Pax ...
in 2000.Karmovskaya, E. S., and J. R. Paxton, 2000 ef. 25768''Revision of the Australian congrid eels of the genus Gnathophis (family Congridae), with descriptions of six new species.'' Journal of Ichthyology v. 40 (Suppl. 1): S1-S14. It is a
subtropical The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical zone, geographical and Köppen climate classification, climate zones to the Northern Hemisphere, north and Southern Hemisphere, south of the tropics. Geographically part of the Geographical z ...
, marine eel which is known from
New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...
,
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
, in the southwestern
Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
. It dwells at a depth range of 50–350 metres.


Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Kenneth Graham (b. 1947), with the New South Wales Fisheries, who provided the type specimen of this species and other east coast specimens to the Australian Museum.


References

grahami Taxa named by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya Taxa named by John Richard Paxton Fish described in 2000 {{Congridae-stub