Bathycongrus thysanochilus

Bathycongrus thysanochilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Congridae
Genus:	Bathycongrus
Species:	B. thysanochilus
Binomial name
	Bathycongrus thysanochilus; (Reid, 1934)
Synonyms[1]
	Congrina thysanochila Reid, 1934; Rhechias thysanochila (Reid, 1934);

The Conger eel[2] (Bathycongrus thysanochilus) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).[3] It was described by Earl Desmond Reid in 1934, originally under the genus Congrina.[4] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Cuba and Venezuela, in the western central Atlantic Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 476–659 metres.

References

Synonyms of Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
Common names for Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.
Reid, E. D., 1934 [ref. 16454] Two new congrid eels and a new flatfish. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections v. 91 (no. 15): 1-11, Pl. 1.

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[1] Synonyms of Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.

[2] Common names for Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.

[Fishbase-3] Bathycongrus thysanochilus at www.fishbase.org.

[Reid,_1934-4] Reid, E. D., 1934 [ref. 16454] Two new congrid eels and a new flatfish. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections v. 91 (no. 15): 1-11, Pl. 1.