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Paraconger similis
Description
Paraconger similis (Wade, 1946).
Shorttail Conger. To 74 cm (29.1 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California and just north of La Playita (barely inside Gulf of California on Baja California side) (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), Sinaloa (Gulf of California), Islas Galápagos, and Islas Revillagigedo (Robertson and Allen 2002). Beltrán-León and Rios Herrera (2000) captured larvae off Colombia that they tentatively assigned to this species. Depth: 49–150 m (161–492 ft) (min.: Smith and Karmovskaya 2003; max.: Smith in Fischer et al. 1995).
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 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Congridae
- Genus
- Paraconger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Wade
- Species
- similis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paraconger similis (Wade, 1946) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Beltran-Leon, B. S. & Rios Herrera, R. (2000) Estadios Tempranos de Peces del Pacific Colombiano. Republica de Colombia. Instituto Nacional de Pesca y Acuicultura INPA.
- 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
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.