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Congridae

Conger Eels

WoRMS 125427ITIS 161324GBIF 2951key worms:125427
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161324 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Congridae
Photo · Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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.W CalCOFI holds 193 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2015, as larva, across 13 taxa under it.R

193
observations
193
records
53
sampling events
1959–2015
years
1
datasets
8
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 53 obs · 53 events · 1959–2014 · larva
    name used: Congridae Conger Eels · code 358

Under it · 3 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125427%22