Skip to content
No photo yet

Other fish (coast and sea)

Dubious Conger

Bathycongrus dubius (Breder, 1927)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishDubious Conger
Dutch—
Spanish—
Chinese细尾深海康吉鳗
Scientific nameBathycongrus dubius (Breder, 1927)

About this species

The dubious conger (Bathycongrus dubius) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Charles Marcus Breder Jr. in 1927, originally under the genus Pseudoxenomystax. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including the United States, the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and the Guianas. It dwells at a depth range of 128–886 meters. Males can reach a maximum total length of 44.3 centimetres (1.45 ft) centimeters.

Read more on Wikipedia · Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderAnguilliformes
FamilyCongridae
GenusBathycongrus

Related species in Suriname