African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Bathycongrus wallacei (Castle, 1968)

Deep-Sea taxon details

Bathycongrus wallacei (Castle, 1968)

To FishBase images (<i>Bathycongrus wallacei</i>, Philippines, by MNHN)

To FishBase images (Bathycongrus wallacei, Philippines, by MNHN)

AphiaID

217543 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217543)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Bathycongrus Ogilby, 1898

Original name

Congrina wallacei Castle, 1968

Synonymised names

Congrina wallacei Castle, 1968 · unaccepted

Rhechias wallacei (Castle, 1968) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Congrina wallacei Castle, 1968) Castle, P. H. J. (1968). The congrid eels of the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. No. 33: 685-726. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Bathycongrus wallacei (Castle, 1968). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217543 on 2025-05-16

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Bathycongrus wallacei (Castle, 1968). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217543 on 2025-05-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2002-01-02 17:49:40Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Congrina wallacei Castle, 1968) Castle, P. H. J. (1968). The congrid eels of the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. No. 33: 685-726. [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	longnose conger [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	ニセツマグロアナゴ	[details]

To Barcode of Life (27 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Congrina wallacei Castle, 1968)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bathycongrus wallacei)
To FishBase (from synonym Rhechias wallacei (Castle, 1968))
To FishBase (from synonym Congrina wallacei Castle, 1968)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Bathycongrus wallacei, Philippines, by MNHN)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 11 proteins) (from synonym Congrina wallacei Castle, 1968)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

To FishBase images (Bathycongrus wallacei, Philippines, by MNHN)

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