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Congridae (Conger and garden eels) > Congrinae
Etymology: Conger: Latin, conger = conger (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines d’Orbigny (1802–1857) was a traveller, collector, illustrator and naturalist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Valenciennes.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin démersal; profondeur 10 - ? m (Ref. 27363). Subtropical; 1°S - 46°S, 68°W - 14°E
Eastern Atlantic: known only from larvae collected in the southern Gulf of Guinea from Annobon, Equatorial Guinea to Mossamedes (Moçâmedes), Angola. Western Atlantic: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to San Jorge Gulf, Argentina (Ref. 86990).
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 112 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 57911)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Found in shallow waters of the continental shelf (Ref. 27363). Feeds on fishes, shrimps, crabs and mollusks.
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Semelparous (Ref. 92882). Specimens captured in deep waters of Brazil had ovaries occupying the whole abdominal cavity with scarce adipose tissue and degraded body indicative of semelparity (Ref. 92882).
Smith, D.G., 1990. Congridae. p. 156-167. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4453)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
Pêcheries: intérêt commercial mineur
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00043 (0.00026 - 0.00069), b=3.23 (3.09 - 3.37), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.7 ±0.59 se; based on food items. |
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Generation time |
7.3 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies. |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Milieu, temps minimum de doublement de population : 1,4 à 4,4 années (Assuming tm<5). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
High vulnerability (61 of 100). 🛈 |
Vulnérabilité climatique (Ref. 125649) |
Moderate vulnerability (38 of 100). 🛈 |
Catégorie de prix (Ref. 80766) |
Low.
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Nutriments (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 44.1 [26.7, 86.9] mg/100g; Iron = 0.851 [0.485, 1.384] mg/100g; Protein = 18.6 [15.8, 21.4] %; Omega3 = 0.3 [0.1, 0.8] g/100g; Selenium = 52.3 [28.1, 102.7] μg/100g; VitaminA = 7.4 [2.2, 24.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.556 [0.410, 0.786] mg/100g (wet weight); |