CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Anguilliformes (order)  »  Congridae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 067039 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Congriscus maldivensis   (Norman, 1939)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO
Family: 37 67 Congridae (Conger Eels) - show full list
Standard Name: [a conger eel]
Organism Type: a conger eel
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 067910     Congriscus spp.
 Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2025-05-19.
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Expected species depth range is from 390 to 696 m.
Taxon Notes:Karmovskaya (2004) reported this species from the upper continental slope off north-western Australia and central Queensland. Also recorded from Cocos Island area (Indian Ocean) in 2022.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:292086e5-aca2-48b2-a9e2-b763106c9e90
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2025-05-19
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 4928
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280372
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2025-05-19
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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