Little Conger

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
	Congromuraena longicauda Ramsay & Ogilby, 1888; Gnathophis longicaudus (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1888);

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]

References

↑ Synonyms of Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.
↑ Common names for Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.
↑ 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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[1] Synonyms of Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.

[2] Common names for Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.

[Fishbase-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org.

[Ramsay_&_Ogilby,_1888-4] 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.