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Chiloconger dentatus
Description
Chiloconger dentatus (Garman, 1899).
Shortsnout Conger or Thicklip Conger. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Punta Tosca (24°11’N, 111°29’W), southern Baja California (Charter in Moser 1996); Sinaloa (25°18’N, 49°W), 2 miles south of entrance of Bahía Topolobampo (Smith and Karmovskaya 2003), to Colombia (Charter in Moser 1996). Depth: 27–247 m (89–810 ft) (Smith and Karmovskaya 2003). Previously known as Chiloconger obtusus Garman, 1899, Chiloconger labiatus Myers and Wade, 1941, and Paraconger dentatus (Garman, 1899); the valid name was determined by Grove and Lavenberg (1997) to be C. dentatus.
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Congridae
- Genus
- Chiloconger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Garman
- Species
- dentatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chiloconger dentatus (Garman, 1899) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
- Smith, D. G. & Karmovskaya, E. S. (2003) A new genus and two new species of congrid eels (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Congridae) from the Indo-West Pacific, with a redescription and osteology of Chiloconger dentatus. Zootaxa, 343, 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 343.1.1
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.