Bandtooth conger
📖 Overview
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🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
: eel-like.
🌀 Behaviour
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🦐 Diet
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🥚 Reproduction
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🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; reef-associated; oceanodromous ; depth range 1 - 732 m , usually 20 - 100 m . Subtropical; 37°N - 17°S North Carolina, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America (Ref.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Baleares Conger · Balearic Conger · Bandtooth conger · Conger Eel |
| 🏳️Catalan | congre de sucre · congre dolç · congre roig · congre ros |
| 🌍CES | úhořovec malý |
| 🇩🇰Danish | Balearisk havål |
| 🇩🇪German | Azorenmuräne · goldener Balearen-Meeraal |
| 🌍ELL | Ζαλούπαρδος · Χελομουγγρί · Χελομουγκρί |
| 🇫🇮Finnish | harjahammasankerias |
| 🇫🇷French | Congre des Baléares |
| 🌍HEB | קונגר בלארי |
| 🇭🇷Croatian | ugoric zlatar |
| 🇮🇹Italian | Chelomougri · Cicirusmiru · Cirrimbidda · Grongo delle Baleari · uocchie 'e luce |
| 🌍MLT | Morina falza · Serp · Serp il-bahar |
| 🇳🇱Dutch | Balearen-congeraal |
| 🇵🇱Polish | Konger bialopletwy |
| 🇵🇹Portuguese | Congro-da-areia · Congro-das-Baleares |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Средиземноморская ариосома |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | Congrillo de charco · Congrio · Varga · congrio algino · congrio balear |
| 🌍SQI | Ngjale deti e baleareve |
| 🌍TUR | migri baligi |
Scientific Synonyms
| Scientific Name | Author | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anguilla acuta | Swainson | 1839 | Synonym |
| Ariosoma acuta | Swainson | 1839 | Synonym |
| Ariosoma impressa | Poey | 1860 | Synonym |
| Ariosoma minor | Howell Rivero | 1934 | Synonym |
| Ariosoma somaliense | Kotthaus | 1968 | Synonym |
| Arisoma balearicum | Delaroche | 1809 | Synonym |
| Conger auratus | Costa | 1844 | Synonym |
| Conger balearicus | Delaroche | 1809 | Synonym |
| Conger cassini | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Conger impressus | Poey | 1860 | Synonym |
| Congermuraena balearica | Delaroche | 1809 | Synonym |
| Congrellus balearicus | Delaroche | 1809 | Synonym |
| Congromuraena balearica | Delaroche | 1809 | Synonym |
| Congromuraena impressa | Poey | 1860 | Synonym |
| Echelus ciuciara | Rafinesque | 1810 | Synonym |
| Helmichthys diaphanus | Costa | 1844 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus affinis | Facciolà | 1883 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus dentex | Collett | 1896 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus eckmani | Strömman | 1896 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus ekmani | Strömman | 1896 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus inornatus | Facciolà | 1883 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus marginatus | Kaup | 1856 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus microphthalmus | Beebe & Tee-Van | 1928 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus rex | Eigenmann & Kennedy | 1902 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus spinocadux | Lea | 1913 | Synonym |
| Leptocephalus taenia | Kaup | 1856 | Synonym |
| Muraena balearica | Delaroche | 1809 | Synonym |
| Muraena cassini | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Ophiosoma impressus | Poey | 1860 | Synonym |
| Ophisoma acuta | Swainson | 1839 | Synonym |
… and 2 more synonyms
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) — 157 records indexed .
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