A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Congridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Lumiconger arafura Castle & Paxton, 1984 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macrocephenchelys brachialis Fowler, 1934 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macrocephenchelys brevirostris (Chen & Weng, 1967) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macrocephenchelys soela Castle, 1990 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Notoconger devexus Schwarzhans, 2019 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Parabathymyrus brachyrhynchus (Fowler, 1934) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parabathymyrus fijiensis Karmovskaya, 2004 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parabathymyrus karrerae Karmovskaya, 1991 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parabathymyrus macrophthalmus Kamohara, 1938 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| flapnose congerParabathymyrus oregoni Smith & Kanazawa, 1977 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parabathymyrus philippinensis Ho, Smith & Shao, 2015 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ringeye congerParaconger californiensis Kanazawa, 1961 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| margintail congerParaconger caudilimbatus (Poey, 1867) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paraconger macrops (Günther, 1870) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paraconger notialis Kanazawa, 1961 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paraconger ophichthys (Garman, 1899) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| shorttail congerParaconger similis (Wade, 1946) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Promyllantor adenensis (Klausewitz, 1991) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Promyllantor atlanticus Karmovskaya, 2006 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Promyllantor purpureus Alcock, 1890 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| purplemouthed congerPseudophichthys splendens (Lea, 1913) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhynchoconger bicoloratus Kodeeswaran, Mohapatra, Kumar & Lal, 2023 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhynchoconger ectenurus (Jordan & Richardson, 1909) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhynchoconger eocenicus (Shepherd, 1916) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| yellow congerRhynchoconger flavus (Goode & Bean, 1896) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| whiptail congerRhynchoconger gracilior (Ginsburg, 1951) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhynchoconger guppyi (Norman, 1925) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| needletail congerRhynchoconger nitens (Jordan & Bollman, 1890) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhynchoconger squaliceps (Alcock, 1894) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhynchoconger trewavasae Ben-Tuvia, 1993 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scalanago lateralis Whitley, 1935 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tonganago coplandi Schwarzhans, Lee & Gard, 2017 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Tonganago fastigatus (Schwarzhans, 1980) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Tonganago obliquus (Stinton, 1957) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Uroconger erythraeus Castle, 1982 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| slender congerUroconger lepturus (Richardson, 1845) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| threadtail congerUroconger syringinus Ginsburg, 1954 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| twinpored eelXenomystax atrarius Gilbert, 1891 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xenomystax bidentatus (Reid, 1940) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xenomystax trucidans Alcock, 1894 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.