Little conger

The little conger (Gnathophis longicauda, also known as the little conger eel or the silver conger[2]) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).[3] It was described by Edward Pierson Ramsay and James Douglas Ogilby in 1888, originally under the genus Congromuraena.[4] It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is endemic to Australia, in the Indo-West Pacific. It dwells at a depth range of 2–99 metres, and inhabits the continental shelf and slope.[3]

Little conger
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Anguilliformes
Family:
Congridae
Genus:
Gnathophis
Species:
G. longicauda
Binomial name
Gnathophis longicauda
(Ramsay & Ogilby, 1888)
Synonyms[1]
  • Congromuraena longicauda Ramsay & Ogilby, 1888
  • Gnathophis longicaudus (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1888)

References
  1. Synonyms of Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Common names for Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.
  4. Ramsay, E. P. and J. D. Ogilby, 1888 (Mar. 28) [ref. 18601] Descriptions of two new fishes from Port Jackson. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Series 2) v. 2 (pt 4): 1021-1023.


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