Coloconger
The Colocongridae, the worm eels or short-tail eels are a family of eels, containing a single genus, Coloconger.
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Colongrids are found in tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and West Pacific oceans. They are bottom-dwelling fish, living in waters from 300 to 900 m (980 to 2,950 ft) in depth.[1] Compared with other eels, they have relatively short and stubby bodies, with blunt snouts.
Species
The nine known species are:[2]
Family Colocongridae
- Genus Coloconger
- Coloconger cadenati Kanazawa, 1961
- Coloconger canina (Castle & Raju, 1975)
- Coloconger eximia (Castle, 1967)
- Coloconger giganteus (Castle, 1959) (giant leptocephalus) (validity doubtful)
- Coloconger japonicus Machida, 1984
- Coloconger meadi Kanazawa, 1957
- Coloconger raniceps Alcock, 1889 (froghead eel)
- Coloconger saldanhai (Quéro, 2001)[3]
- Coloconger scholesi W. L. Y. Chan, 1967 (Indo-Pacific short-tail conger)
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See also
References
- McClosker, John F. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 89. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Colocongridae" in FishBase. June 2011 version.
- UNIVERSAL FISH CATALOGUE - Coloconger saldanhai Quéro 2001 Archived 2013-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
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