Congridae

Wirtz, Peter, Fricke, Ronald & Biscoito, Manuel José, 2008, The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list, Zootaxa 1715, pp. 1-26 : 6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.274128

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6230033

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FD1087D9-FFA3-4A52-FF67-A68E4DF1FCC9

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scientific name

Congridae
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* Ariosoma balearicum (Delaroche, 1809) —Bandtooth conger

*Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758)—Conger eel

* Heteroconger longissimus Günther, 1870 —Garden eel

Recorded from Madeira by Bauchot & Saldanha in Whitehead et al. (1986: 573-574) under the name Taenioconger longissimus .

Paraconger macrops (Günther, 1870) —Blackspot conger

No specimen in MMF collection but record confirmed by underwater observation at Reis Magos by the first author. A specimen of Paraconger macrops was caught near Porto Santo Island during a fishery survey (J. Delgado, pers. comm. to PW) but was unfortunately not preserved.

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