Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Elopocephalai
Supercohors: Elopocephala
Cohors/Superordo: Elopomorpha
Ordo: Anguilliformes
Subordo: Congroidei
Familia: Colocongridae
Genus: Coloconger
Species (8): C. cadenati – C. canina – C. eximia – C. japonicus – C. maculatus – C. meadi – C. raniceps – C. saldanhai – C. scholesi
Name
Coloconger Alcock, 1889: 456.
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Coloconger raniceps Alcock, 1889.
Fixation: type by monotypy.
Synonyms
Ascomana Castle, 1967: 5.
Gender: feminine.
Type species: Ascomana eximia Castle, 1967.
Fixation: type by original designation (also monotypic).
Coloconger raniceps
References
Primary references
Alcock, A.W. 1889. Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator,' Commander Alfred Carpenter, R. N., D. S. O., commanding.—No. 13. On the bathybial fishes of the Bay of Bengal and neighbouring waters, obtained during the seasons 1885-1889. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series, 4(24): 450–461. BHL
Castle, P.H.J. 1967. Two remarkable eel-larvae from off southern Africa. Special Publication, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, 1: 1–12.
Links
Coloconger Alcock, 1889 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Coloconger and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Coloconger species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
The Colocongridae, the worm eels or short-tail eels, are a family of eels, containing a single genus, Coloconger.
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.[1] Compared with other eels, they have relatively short and stubby bodies, with blunt snouts.
Species
The ten known species are:[2]
Family Colocongridae
Genus Coloconger
Coloconger cadenati Kanazawa, 1961
Coloconger canina (Castle & Raju, 1975)
Coloconger eximia (Castle, 1967)
Coloconger giganteus (Castle, 1959) (giant leptocephalus) (validity doubtful)
Coloconger japonicus Machida, 1984
Coloconger maculatus HO, H.-C. ., TANG, C.-N. ., & CHU, T.-W. . (2021) [3]
Coloconger meadi Kanazawa, 1957
Coloconger raniceps Alcock, 1889 (froghead eel)
Coloconger saldanhai (Quéro, 2001)[4]
Coloconger scholesi W. L. Y. Chan, 1967 (Indo-Pacific short-tail conger)
See also
List of fish families
References
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.
Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Colocongridae" in FishBase. June 2011 version.
Coloconger maculatus sp. nov., a species of short-tail eel from eastern Taiwan (Anguilliformes: Colocongridae). Zootaxa, 5016(2), 271–282. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5016.2.7
UNIVERSAL FISH CATALOGUE - Coloconger saldanhai Quéro 2001 Archived 2013-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
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