Congiopodus

Congiopodus, commonly known as pigfishes, horsefishes and 'racehorses, is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, the only genus in the family Congiopodidae'. These fishes are found in the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

==Taxonomy== Congiopodus was first formally described as a genus in 1811 by the English naturalist George Perry when he described Congiopodus percatus, the type species by monotypy. Subsequently, Perry's species was shown to be a junior synonym of Blennius torvus which had been described by the Dutch zoologist Laurens Theodorus Gronow in 1772, with an erroneous type locality of the Indian Ocean given for this southern African species.