The Colocongridae, the worm eels or short-tail eels, are a family of eels, containing a single genus, Coloconger.
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| Coloconger raniceps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Suborder: | Congroidei |
| Family: | Colocongridae D. G. Smith, 1976[1] |
| Genus: | Coloconger Alcock, 1889 |
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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.[2] Compared with other eels, they have relatively short and stubby bodies, with blunt snouts.
Species
editThe ten known species are:[3]
- Genus Coloconger
- Coloconger cadenati Kanazawa, 1961
- Coloconger canina (Castle & Raju, 1975)
- Coloconger eximia (Castle, 1967)
- Coloconger giganteus (Castle, 1959) (giant leptocephalus)
- Coloconger japonicus Machida, 1984
- Coloconger maculatus Ho, Tang & Chu, 2021 [4]
- Coloconger meadi Kanazawa, 1957
- Coloconger raniceps Alcock, 1889 (froghead eel)
- Coloconger saldanhai (Quéro, 2001)[5]
- Coloconger scholesi W. L. Y. Chan, 1967 (Indo-Pacific short-tail conger)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ López, J.; Westneat, Mark; Hanel, Reinhold (2007). "The Phylogenetic Affinities of the Mysterious Anguilliform Genera Coloconger and Thalassenchelys as Supported by mTDNA Sequences". Copeia. 2007: 959–966. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[959:TPAOTM]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Coloconger". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ "Coloconger maculatus sp. nov., a species of short-tail eel from eastern Taiwan (Anguilliformes: Colocongridae)". Zootaxa. 5016 (2): 271–282. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5016.2.7.
- ^ "Coloconger saldanhai Quéro 2001". UNIVERSAL FISH CATALOGUE. Archived from the original on 2013-12-15.