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Shorthead Conger

Bathycongrus macrurus

Classification

Family
Congridae

The shorthead conger (Bathycongrus macrurus) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert in 1891, originally under the genus Ophisoma. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Gulf of California to Panama, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog