Species: Neoconger mucronatus, Ridged Eel
Neoconger mucronatus Girard, 1858
Ridged Eel
Elongate, worm-like, strongly compressed near tail; body and tail about same length; head conical, tapering, with pointed overhanging snout, upper jaw projects beyond lower; eye small; teeth small, conical, 1-2 rows on jaws, those in center of top jaws joining the strip down the center of the roof of the mouth; nostrils non-tubular, rear one a little in front of middle of eye; pectoral present, small, behind top of vertical, lateral gill opening; dorsal begins a little before anus; median fins continuous, low, fleshy, confluent with well developed tail fin; lateral line on body to level of anus, only pores on head are on lower jaw.
Brown, sometimes with dark reticulations; pores on lower jaw sometimes surrounded by white areas.
Reaches 30 cm.
Burrows in soft mud bottoms.
Depth range: 1-265 m.
The Gulf of Mexico to central Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 265
