Southern conger

The southern conger (Conger verreauxi) is a conger of the family Congridae, found in the eastern Indian Ocean and south-western Pacific Ocean, including southern Australia and New Zealand, at depths down to 100 m in broken rocky reef areas. Length is up to 2 m and weight may be up to 5 kg.

Southern conger
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Congridae
Genus: Conger
Species:
C. verreauxi
Binomial name
Conger verreauxi
Kaup, 1856

The fish is named in honor of Kaup’s friend Julius "Jules" Verreaux (1807-1873), who was a botanist, an ornithologist and a trader in natural history specimens, and who collected the type specimen in Australia.[2]

References

  1. Smith, D.; Coral Specialist Group (2010). "Conger verreauxi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T155072A4724648. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155072A4724648.en. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order ANGUILLIFORMES: Families MURAENESOCIDAE, NETTASTOMATIDAE, CONGRIDAE, MORINGUIDAE, CYEMATIDAE, NEOCYEMATIDAE, MONOGNATHIDAE, SACCOPHARYNGIDAE, EURYPHARYNGIDAE, NEMICHTHYIDAE, SERRIVOMERIDAE and ANGUILLIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Conger verreauxi" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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