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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Paraconger californiensis

California conger

WoRMS 271789ITIS 635695GBIF 2403407key worms:271789
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2026-08-05: itis_id 635695 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus
California conger60 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Paraconger californiensis
Photo · natividadm · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Californian conger, also known as the ringeye conger, is an eel in the family Congridae. It was described by Robert H. Kanazawa.W CalCOFI holds 10 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2003, as larva.R

10
observations
10
records
10
sampling events
1960–2003
years
1
datasets
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 10 obs · 10 events · 1960–2003 · larva
    name used: Paraconger californiensis California conger · code 361

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:271789%22