Castle's conger

The Castle's conger[1] (Gnathophis castlei) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).[2] It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya and John Richard Paxton in 2000.[3] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Queensland, Australia, in the western central Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 131–366 metres. Males can reach a total length of 34.2 centimetres.[2]

Castle's conger
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Anguilliformes
Family:
Congridae
Genus:
Gnathophis
Species:
G. castlei
Binomial name
Gnathophis castlei
Karmovskaya & Paxton, 2000

The species epithet refers to Peter Henry John Castle.

References
  1. Common names for Gnathophis castlei at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Gnathophis castlei Archived 2013-06-16 at Archive.today at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Karmovskaya, E. S., and J. R. Paxton, 2000 [ref. 25768] Revision of the Australian congrid eels of the genus Gnathophis (family Congridae), with descriptions of six new species. Journal of Ichthyology v. 40 (Suppl. 1): S1-S14.


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