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Conger
Sign in to saveConger ( ) 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.
Species
kongeraal
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderAnguilliformes
- FamilyCongridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 315
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Congridae
- Collections
- USNM, CUMV, NHMUK, SIO, ODU, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States, United Kingdom, French Polynesia, South Africa, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Tonga, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
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- taxon common name
- Congrio
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Conger
- Commons category
- Conger
- topic's main category
- Category:Conger
- start time
- 55000000-0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Species
- Formerly Included Species
- Fishing
- Behaviour
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Conger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.