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Shorttail Congers
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Shorttail Congers

Coloconger

The Colocongridae, the worm eels or short-tail eels are a family of eels, containing a single genus, Coloconger.

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10 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species

Indo-Pacific Shorttail Conger

speciesColoconger scholesi

Coloconger japonicus

speciesColoconger japonicus

Coloconger cadenati

speciesColoconger cadenati

Coloconger caninus

speciesColoconger caninus

Coloconger eximius

speciesColoconger eximius

Giant Leptocephalus

speciesColoconger giganteus

Coloconger maculatus

speciesColoconger maculatus

Froghead Eel

speciesColoconger raniceps

Atlantic Shorttail Eel

speciesColoconger meadi

Coloconger saldanhai

speciesColoconger saldanhai

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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 87571.