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: Anguilloidei
Familia: Moringuidae
Genus: Neoconger
Species (3): N. mucronatus – N. tuberculatus – N. vermiformis
Name
Neoconger Girard, 1858: 171
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Neoconger mucronatus Girard, 1858
Fixation: type by monotypy.
Synonyms
Chrinorhinus Howell Rivero, 1932: 8
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Chrinorhinus torrei Howell Rivero, 1932 (= Neoconger mucronatus Girard, 1858)
Fixation: type by monotypy.
References
Primary references
Girard, C.P. 1858. Notes upon various new genera and new species of fishes, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and collected in connection with the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Major William Emory, Commissioner. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10: 167-171. BHL
Howell Rivero, L. 1932. The apodal fishes of Cuba. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club 13: 3-26.
Links
Neoconger Girard, 1858 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Neoconger 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.
Neoconger species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Neoconger is a small genus of eels of the family Moringuidae. It contains these described species:
Neoconger mucronatus Girard, 1858 (ridged eel)
Neoconger tuberculatus (Castle, 1965) (swollengut worm eel)
Neoconger vermiformis C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (smalleye spaghetti-eel)
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Neoconger in FishBase. June 2011 version.
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