Biology:Southern conger
From HandWiki
Short description: Species of fish
| Southern conger | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific 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 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.
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
- ↑ 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/155072/4724648. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ↑ "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. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/anguilliformes3/.
- Froese, Rainer and 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
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1860270 entry
 |  |
