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Fringelip Conger
Bathycongrus thysanochilus
The Conger eel (Bathycongrus thysanochilus) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Earl Desmond Reid in 1934, originally under the genus Congrina. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Cuba and Venezuela, in the western central Atlantic Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 476-659 metres.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 131413.