Species: Conger triporiceps, Manytooth conger
both lips with flanges, top flange wide
Conger triporiceps Kanazawa, 1958
Manytooth conger
Body and tail moderately slender; tail 57-62% of TL, tail neither blunt nor thin, tip flexible; 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; dorsal and anal fins with segmented rays, confluent with tail fin; 1-2 pores behind eyes, 3 pores on top of nape; lateral line pores before anus 37-44.
Preserved fish grey brown; vertical fins with black edges.
Reaches 100 cm.
Lives on sandy bottoms, around reefs.
Depth range: 3-164 m.
Bermuda to the southern Caribbean
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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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- Mangrove
- Sand & gravel
- Reef only
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Estuary
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Max
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- 164
- Depth Range Min
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- 3
- Length Max
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- 100
