ANIMAL SPECIES:Large-tooth Conger, Bathyuroconger vicinus (Vaillant, 1888)
The Large-tooth Conger can be recognised by the long pointed teeth on both jaws and long dorsal and anal fin rays. It is dark brown to black. The fish in the image had its skin damaged during capture in the trawl net.
Identification
The Large-tooth Conger can be recognised by the long pointed teeth on both jaws and long dorsal and anal fin rays. It is dark brown to black. The fish in the image had its skin damaged during capture in the trawl net.
There are three specimens identified as B.vicinus in the Australian Museum Fish Collection. One is the fish in the images and the others (AMS I.20920-011) are 60 cm and 65c m long fish trawled in February 1979 at a depth of approximately 900 m, north-east of Raine Island, far northern Queensland.
Size range
The species grows to at least 1.2 m in length.Distribution
It is recorded from the tropical Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific at depths from 229 m to 1318 m.
In Australia the species has been caught off north-western Western Australia, northen Queensland and Tasmania.
Behaviour and adaptations
Feeding and Diet
The Large-tooth Conger preys on other fishes. The specimen in the image had a partially digested 14 cm long rattail (Family Macrouridae, AMS I.41361-004) in its gut.
Classification
- Species:
- vicinus
- Genus:
- Bathyuroconger
- Family:
- Congridae
- Class:
- Actinopterygii
- Subphylum:
- Vertebrata
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
References
- Smith, D.G. 1989. Congridae in Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Part 9 Volume 1: Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes. Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University. Pp. 655.
- Smith, D.G., 1990. Congridae. in Quero, J.C., Hureau, J.C., Karrer, C., Post A. & L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1: 158-159.
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