Argentine conger
The Argentine conger is a conger eel of the class Actinopterygii. It is found in its adult form on the South American coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, though its larval form has been discovered in the Gulf of Guinea on Africa's Atlantic coast.
Taxonomy
The Argentine conger was first described by Achille Valenciennes in 1837. It has also been described under the synonyms Conger multidens, Conger orbignyanus, and Leptocephalus orbignyanus. It is classified in the Congridae family of the order Anguilliformes, in the class Actinopterygii.Ecology
The Argentine conger is a demersal fish found in the western Atlantic Ocean between Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the San Jorge Gulf of Argentina. In the Eastern Atlantic it only been found in its larval form in the southern Gulf of Guinea from Annobón, Equatorial Guinea to Mossamedes, Angola. It preys on fishes, shrimps, crabs, and mollusks.The species is assessed as a least-concern species on the IUCN Red List. It lives in the neritic zone, at least 10 metres deep with an unknown maximum depth. It has been accidentally taken by fishers with trawling nets.