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Conger ( / ˈkɒŋɡər / KONG-gər) is a genus of marine congrid eels. [ 2] It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to 2 m (6 ft) or more in length, [ 3] in the case of the European conger. Large congers have often been observed by divers during the day in parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and both European and American congers ...
European congers have an average adult length of 1.5 m (5 ft), a maximum known length of around 2.133 m (7 ft) (possibly up to 3 metres (9 ft 10 in) for the largest specimens), [ 2] and maximum weight of roughly 72 kg (159 lb), [ 3] making them the largest eels in the world by weight. They can be rivaled or marginally exceeded in length by the ...
The European conger is the heaviest of all eels. Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from 5 cm (2 in) in the one-jawed eel ( Monognathus ahlstromi) to 4 m (13 ft) in the slender giant moray. [ 7] Adults range in weight from 30 g (1 oz) to well over 25 kg (55 lb). They possess no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins.
Congridae. The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden (thus the name). [1] The family includes over 180 species in 32 genera. The European conger, Conger conger, is the ...
The American conger (Conger oceanicus) is a species of eel in the family Congridae.Other common names for this fish include conger, dog eel, poison eel and sea eel. It is a marine fish with a widespread distribution in the Western Atlantic from Cape Cod in Massachusetts to northeastern Florida in United States and the northern Gulf of Mexico, and is also reported from near the mid-Atlantic ...
Conger (surname) Conger is the surname of: Abraham Benjamin Conger (1887–1953), American politician and federal judge. Arthur L. Conger (1872–1951), American US Army colonel and theosophist. Benn Conger (1856–1922), American businessman, banker and politician. Clement Conger (1912–2004), American museum curator and public servant.
Garden eels. The garden eels are the subfamily Heterocongrinae in the conger eel family Congridae. The majority of the 36 known species of garden eels live in the Indo-Pacific, but can be found in warm ocean water worldwide. [ 1][ 2][ 3] These small eels live in burrows on the sea floor and get their name from the behavior of poking their heads ...
Grey conger. The grey conger ( Conger esculentus ), also known as the Antillean conger or simply the conger eel, [2] is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). [3] It was described by Felipe Poey in 1861. [4] It is a tropical and subtropical, marine eel which is known from the western central Atlantic Ocean, including Cuba, Jamaica ...