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  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Ray-finned Fishes
  5. ›Tarpons, Eels, and Allies
  6. ›True Eels
  7. ›Congroidei
  8. ›Congers and Garden Eels
  9. ›Typical Congers
  10. ›Gnathophis
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Little Conger

Gnathophis longicauda

The little conger (Gnathophis longicauda, also known as the little conger eel or the silver conger) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Edward Pierson Ramsay and James Douglas Ogilby in 1888, originally under the genus Congromuraena. 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.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 611978.