Species: Conger esculentus, Grey conger
both lips with flanges, top flange wide
Conger esculentus Poey, 1861
Grey conger
Body and tail moderately slender; rear nostril a hole at or above mid-eye level; mouth horizontal; snout slightly projecting; teeth small, pointed; a round patch at top front of mouth, barely separated from a short triangular patch on roof of mouth; jaw teeth in 1-2 rows, outer row forming a cutting edge, inner row not separated from outer row by a toothless gap, teeth concealed when mouth is closed; both top and bottom lips with a flange, wide on top lip; pectoral fins present; dorsal fin begins behind base of pectoral, usually over tip of fin; tail 59-61% of TL, neither blunt nor thin, tip flexible; dorsal and anal fins continuous with the tail fin; no pores behind eyes, one pore atop nape; lateral line pores before anus 32-36.
Preserved fish grey brown; vertical fins with dark edges.
Reaches 160 cm.
Lives on hard bottoms.
Depth range: 100-681 m.
Bermuda to Venezuela.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s) only
- GC non-endemic
- Also in Brazil
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 160
- Depth Range Min
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- 100
- Depth Range Max
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- 681
