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Conger
''Conger'' ( ) is a genus of marine congrid eels. It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to or more in length, in the case of the European conger. Large congers have often been observed by divers during the day in parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and both European and American congers are sometimes caught by fishermen along the European and North American Atlantic coasts. The life histories of most conger eels are poorly known. Based on collections of their small leptocephalus larvae, the American conger eel has been found to spawn in the southwestern Sargasso Sea, close to the spawning areas of the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic freshwater eels. "Conger" or "conger eel" is sometimes included in the common names of species of the family Congridae, including members of this genus. Description Congers have wide mouths with sturdy teeth, usually a variant of gray or black in coloration. They have no scales. Their body weight can reach over . Species * †''Conger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Conger
The European conger (''Conger conger'') is a species of conger of the family Congridae. It is the heaviest eel in the world and native to the northeast Atlantic, including the Mediterranean Sea. Description and behaviour European congers have an average adult length of , a maximum known length of around and maximum weight of roughly , but possibly up to , making them the largest eels in the world by weight. They can be rivaled or marginally exceeded in length by the largest species of moray eel but these tend to be slenderer and thus weigh less than the larger congers. Average specimens caught will weigh only . Females, with an average length at sexual maturity of , are much larger than males, with an average length at sexual maturity of . The body is very long, anguilliform, and is without scales. The colour is usually grey, but can also be blackish. The belly is white. A row of small white spots is aligned along the lateral line. The head is almost conical, and slightly dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conger Jordani
''Conger'' ( ) is a genus of marine congrid eels. It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to or more in length, in the case of the European conger. Large congers have often been observed by divers during the day in parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and both European and American congers are sometimes caught by fishermen along the European and North American Atlantic coasts. The life histories of most conger eels are poorly known. Based on collections of their small leptocephalus larvae, the American conger eel has been found to spawn in the southwestern Sargasso Sea, close to the spawning areas of the Atlantic freshwater eels. "Conger" or "conger eel" is sometimes included in the common names of species of the family Congridae, including members of this genus. Description Congers have wide mouths with sturdy teeth, usually a variant of gray or black in coloration. They have no scales. Their body weight can reach over . Species * †'' Conger brevisulcus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conger Brevisulcus
''Conger'' ( ) is a genus of marine congrid eels. It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to or more in length, in the case of the European conger. Large congers have often been observed by divers during the day in parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and both European and American congers are sometimes caught by fishermen along the European and North American Atlantic coasts. The life histories of most conger eels are poorly known. Based on collections of their small leptocephalus larvae, the American conger eel has been found to spawn in the southwestern Sargasso Sea, close to the spawning areas of the Atlantic freshwater eels. "Conger" or "conger eel" is sometimes included in the common names of species of the family Congridae, including members of this genus. Description Congers have wide mouths with sturdy teeth, usually a variant of gray or black in coloration. They have no scales. Their body weight can reach over . Species * †'' Conger brevisulcus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conger Davidsmithi
''Conger'' ( ) is a genus of marine congrid eels. It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to or more in length, in the case of the European conger. Large congers have often been observed by divers during the day in parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and both European and American congers are sometimes caught by fishermen along the European and North American Atlantic coasts. The life histories of most conger eels are poorly known. Based on collections of their small leptocephalus larvae, the American conger eel has been found to spawn in the southwestern Sargasso Sea, close to the spawning areas of the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic freshwater eels. "Conger" or "conger eel" is sometimes included in the common names of species of the family Congridae, including members of this genus. Description Congers have wide mouths with sturdy teeth, usually a variant of gray or black in coloration. They have no scales. Their body weight can reach over . Species * †''Conger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congrid
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 includes over 220 species in 32 genera. The European conger, ''Conger conger'', is the largest of the family and of the Anguilliformes order that includes it; it has been recorded at up to in length and weighing . 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. The earliest known fossils of this group are otoliths from the Campanian of the United States. A number of articulated specimens are known from the Paleogene of Europe. Genera The Congridae is divided into the following subfamilies and genera: * '' Alaconger'' Schwarzhans, 2010 (2 species; otolith- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conger Oceanicus
The American conger (''Conger oceanicus'') is a species of eel in the family Congridae. Other common names for this fish include conger, dog eel, poison eel and sea eel. It is a marine fish with a widespread distribution in the Western Atlantic from Cape Cod in Massachusetts to northeastern Florida in United States and the northern Gulf of Mexico, and is also reported from near the mid-Atlantic island of St. Helena and off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada. Dark grayish color, it can grow to about long and weigh more than . Description The American conger is a large, elongated, cylindrical fish growing to a maximum length of over and a maximum weight of over , though a more typical length is about a meter. The upper jaw projects further forward than the lower jaw. The dorsal fin starts just behind the pectoral fins and runs in a continuous even ribbon to the tip of the tail, where it fuses with the similarly long and uniform anal fin. The dorsal surface is some shade of dark gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conger Japonicus
The whitespotted conger (''Conger myriaster'') ( Japanese: ; ''ma-anago'') is a marine conger eel, widespread in the Northwest Pacific near the coasts of Japan, Korean Peninsula, and the East China Sea The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. China names the body of water along its eastern coast as "East Sea" (, ) due to direction, the name of "East China Sea" is otherwise .... ''C. myriaster'' inhabits shallow sea bottom sand and mud. It is also consumed as food and is a common item on menus in Japan and abroad as anago. Its maximum total length is 100 cm. References ''Conger myriaster'' at FishBase whitespotted conger Marine fauna of East Asia whitespotted conger Articles containing video clips whitespotted conger {{Anguilliformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grey Conger
The grey conger (''Conger esculentus''), also known as the Antillean conger or simply the conger eel, is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Conger esculentus'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by in 1861.Poey, F., 1858-61 ef. 3499''Memorias sobra la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba, acompañadas de sumarios Latinos y extractos en Francés.'' Tomo 2. La Habana. ections have subtitles. v. 2: 1-96 (1858), 97-336 (1860), 337-442, (1861), Pls. 1-19. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conger Cinereus
The longfin African conger (''Conger cinereus'') or blacklip conger is an eel of the family Congridae, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Marquesas and Easter islands, north to southern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia and Lord Howe Island Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies directly east of mainland Port ..., at depths down to . Length is up to . References External links Fishes of Australia: "''Conger cinereus''"* longfin African conger Marine fish of East Africa Taxa named by Eduard Rüppell longfin African conger {{Anguilliformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptocephalus
A leptocephalus (meaning "slim head") is the flat and Transparency (optics), transparent larva of eels and other members of the superorder Elopomorpha. This is one of the most diverse groups of teleosts, containing 801 species in 4 orders, 24 families, and 156 genera. This group is thought to have arisen in the Cretaceous period over 140 million years ago.Inuoe, Jun, M. Miya, et al. “Mitogenomic evidence for the monophyly of elopomorph fishes (Teleostei) and the evolutionary origin of the leptocephalus larva.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32 (2004): 274-286. Web. 2 Nov. 2012. Fishes with a leptocephalus larval stage include the most familiar eels such as the conger, moray eel, and garden eel as well as members of the family Anguillidae, plus more than 10 other families of lesser-known types of marine eels. These are all true eels of the order Anguilliformes. Leptocephali of eight species of eels from the South Atlantic Ocean were described by Meyer-Rochow The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
