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Indo-Pacific Shorttail Conger
Coloconger scholesi
The Indo-Pacific shorttail conger (Coloconger scholesi), also known as the short-tail conger, is an eel in the family Colocongridae (worm eels/short-tail eels). It was described by Chan William Lai-Yee in 1967. It is a marine, deep-water dwelling eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific, including southern Mozambique, Natal, South Africa, the South China Sea, and eastern Australia. It dwells at depths of 412–970 m (1,352–3,182 ft). It can reach a maximum total length of 51 centimetres (20 in).
From the article Indo-Pacific shorttail conger on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The fish is named in honor of Patrick Scholes (ca. 1946–2011), of the Fisheries Laboratory, in Lowestoft, England, for his contributions to the fishery survey program in the South China Sea.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 611928.