Genus Conger Bosc, 1817

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• Conger Bosc, L.A.G. 1817. Poissons. In, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle. Appliquée aux arts à l'Agriculture, à l'Economie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Paris : Deterville Vol. 7 586 pp. [450] [Conger Oken, 1817, see Oken, L. 1817. V. Klasse Fische. Isis (Muenchen) 8(148): 1181–1183 [misprinted 1781–1783], placed on official list of generic names by Opinion 93 International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1926. Opinions rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinions 91–97. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4): 1–30 and International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Direction 87. Completion and in part, correction of the entries on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in regard to the generic names Cottus Linnaeus, 1758 (Class, Pisces), and Conger Oken, 1817 (Class Pisces) made by Rulings given respectively in Opinions 77 and 93 published in the period up to the end of 1936 and matters incidental thereto. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1F: 1–16, but Bosc, L.A.G. 1817. Poissons. In, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle. Appliquée aux arts à l'Agriculture, à l'Economie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Paris : Deterville Vol. 7 586 pp. predates Oken, 1817 op. cit.; no species included by Bosc, 1817 op. cit. and first species are given by Cloquet, H. 1818. [Poissons]. In, Levrault, F.G. (ed.) Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Strasbourg Vol. 10 596 pp.].

  Type species:

   Muraena conger Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Leptocephalus Scopoli, G.A. 1777. Introductio ad Historiam Naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Prague : Wolfgangus Gerle 506 pp. [453] [Leptocephalus Scopoli placed on Official Index (Direction 87), suppressed for purposes of priority but not homonymy (Opinion 93). Leptocephalus Cuvier 1797 placed on Official Index (Opinion 87) as a junior homonym; Leptocephalus of Gmelin in Linnaeus 1789:1130 and Gronovius 1763:135 also placed on Official Index (Direction 87)].

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Misidentifications

CONGRIDAE: Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758) — Blache, J. & Bauchot, M.-L. 1976. Contribution à la connaissance des poissons Anguilliformes de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 16e note: les familles des Congridae et Colocongridae. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire A 38: 369-444 figs 1-30 (restricted to European waters, the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

General References

Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [211]

Hoese, D.F. & Gates, J.E. 2006. Congridae. pp. 287-297 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [291]

Kanazawa, R.H. 1958. A revision of the eels of the genus Conger with descriptions of four new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 108(3400): 219-267 figs 1-7 pls 1-4

Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp.

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [140]

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