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Congridae (Conger and garden eels) > Congrinae
Etymology: Rhynchoconger: Greek, rhingchos = snout + Latin, conger = conger (Ref. 45335); smithi: Named for David G. Smith, Division of Fishes, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Eponymy: Dr David G Smith is an American ichthyologist who is a Museum Specialist at the Smithsonian Institution. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino demersal; rango de profundidad ? - 95 m (Ref. 130180). Tropical
Eastern Indian Ocean: northern Bay of Bengal (West), India.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 66.1 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 130180)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Vértebra: 159. This species is distinguished by the following characters: head smaller than trunk; eye small, diameter 2.0-2.2 in snout length; rictus reaching to level of the posterior margin of pupil; preanal length more than three times in TL; ethmovomerine teeth patch is broad, with 58-74 blunt teeth arranged in 7-8 irregular rows; vomerine teeth patch is small, with 18-28 granular teeth arranged in 4-6 irregular rows, distinctly separated by narrow spaces from the ethmovomerine and maxillary teeth; supra orbital pores 3 with one supra temporal pore; vertebrae: predorsal 6-7, preanal 32-33 and total 159+ - 164+ (Ref. 130180).
Cross section: oval.
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Mohapatra, A., H.-C. Ho, S. Acharya, D. Ray and S.S. Mishra, 2022. A new congrid eel, Rhynchoconger smithi sp. nov. (Anguilliformes: Congridae), from the Bay of Bengal, India. J. Fish Biol. 100(6):1335-1344. (Ref. 130180)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Herramientas
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5010 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00062 (0.00028 - 0.00135), b=3.19 (3.01 - 3.37), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
4.0 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (39 of 100). 🛈 |