WoRMS taxon details

Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758)

126285 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126285)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Anguilliformes (Order)
  11. Congridae (Family)
  12. Congrinae (Subfamily)
  13. Conger (Genus)
  14. Conger conger (Species)
accepted
Species
Conger Bosc, 1817
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Muraena conger Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 245 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126285 on 2026-09-17
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Leptocephalus lineatus Bonnaterre, 1788) Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1
page(s): 39, Pl. 86 (fig. 359) [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Leptocephalus gussoni Cocco, 1829) Cocco, A. (1829). Su di alcuni nuovi pesci de' mari di Messina. <em>Giornale di Scienze Lettere e Arti per La Sicilia.</em> Anno 7, v. 26 (no. 77): 138-147.
page(s): 139 [details] 

original description (of Leptocephalus candidissimus Costa, 1832) Costa, O. G. (1829-53). Fauna del regno di Napoli, ossia enumerazione di tutti gli animali che abitano le diverse regioni di questo regno e le acque che le bagnano, etc. Pesci. <em>Fauna del regno di Napoli.</em> Part 1: 511 pp. (variously paginated), 60 pls.
page(s): Leptocephalus p. 2, Pl. 20 (figs. 1-2) [details] 

original description (of Conger communis Costa, 1844) Costa, O. G. (1829-53). Fauna del regno di Napoli, ossia enumerazione di tutti gli animali che abitano le diverse regioni di questo regno e le acque che le bagnano, etc. Pesci. <em>Fauna del regno di Napoli.</em> Part 1: 511 pp. (variously paginated), 60 pls.
page(s): Conger p. 2 [details] 

original description (of Ophidium pellucidum Couch, 1832) Couch, J. (1832). Further observations on some of the fishes of Cornwall. <em>Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Minerology, Gelology, and Meterology.</em> v. 5 (no. 26, art. 3): 311-316.
page(s): 313, Fig. 65 [details] 

original description (of Leptocephalus inaequalis Facciolà, 1883) Facciolà, L. (1883). Descrizione di nuove specie di leptocephali dello Stretto di Messina. <em>Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali. Memorié.</em> v. 6 (pt 1): 3-11, Pl. 4. [details] 

original description (of Leptocephalus morrisii Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,.</em> 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125970
page(s): 1150 [details] 

original description (of Muraena conger Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 245 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Conger rubescens Ranzani, 1839) Ranzani, C. (1839). De novis speciebus piscium. Dissertatio prima. <em>Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis.</em> v. 4 [1840]: 65-83, Pls. 8-13. [details] 

original description (of Muraena nigra Risso, 1810) Risso, A. (1810). Ichthyologie de Nice, ou histoire naturelle des poissons du Département des Alpes Maritimes. <em>F. Schoell, Paris.</em> i-xxxvi + 1-388, Pls. 1-11., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.7052
page(s): 93 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Leptocephalus spallanzani Risso, 1810) Risso, A. (1810). Ichthyologie de Nice, ou histoire naturelle des poissons du Département des Alpes Maritimes. <em>F. Schoell, Paris.</em> i-xxxvi + 1-388, Pls. 1-11., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.7052
page(s): 85 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Anguilla obtusa Swainson, 1839) Swainson, W. (1839). On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. <em>Spottiswoode & Co., London.</em> v. 2: i-vi + 1-452. [details] 

original description (of Conger vulgaris Yarrell, 1832) Yarrell, W. (1832). On the anatomy of the conger eel and on the differences between the conger and freshwater eels. <em>Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1830-31 (pt 1): 158-159. [details] 

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Ecology

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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

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

context source (WoRCS) Kovačić, M.; Gerovasileiou, V.; Patzner, R. A. (2024). Fishes in Marine Caves. <em>Fishes.</em> 9(6): 243., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/9/6/243 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Digenis, M.; Ragkousis, M.; Dimitriadis, C.; Katsanevakis, S.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2025). Assessing the Motile Fauna of Eastern Mediterranean Marine Caves. <em>Fishes.</em> 10(8): 383., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10080383 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001
page(s): 245 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Hildebrand, S. F.; Schroeder, W. C. (1972). Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. <em>T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Neptune, New Jersey.</em> 1-388. [details] 

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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Albanian ngjala e egërngjala e detitgrujagrua  [details]
Basque itsas aingira  [details]
Breton sili-môrsablienn  [details]
Catalan congre  [details]
Corsican groncu  [details]
Croatian ugor  [details]
Czech úhoř mořský  [details]
Danish havål  [details]
Dutch zeepalingkongeraalkommeraalcongoraalcongeraal  [details]
English European congerconger eelconger  [details]
Faroese havállur  [details]
Finnish meriankerias  [details]
French congre d'Europecongre  [details]
German MeeraalCongeraal  [details]
Hebrew קונגר ים-תיכוני  [details]
Icelandic hafáll  [details]
Irish eascú  [details]
Italian grongocongro  [details]
Maltese gringu  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) ΔρόγγοςMουγκρί  [details]
Norwegian havål  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål havål  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk havål  [details]
Polish konger  [details]
Portuguese safiocongro  [details]
Russian Угорь морской атлантический  [details]
Scottish Gaelic an eascann choncair  [details]
Serbian ugor  [details]
Slovenian gruj  [details]
Spanish congrio comúncongrio  [details]
Swedish havsål  [details]
Turkish migri baligi  [details]
Ukrainian Морський вугор атлантичний Вугор морський атлантичний  [details]
Welsh môr-lysywencongren  [details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland 
Marine Life Information Network - UK 
To Barcode of Life (39 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (118 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus conger (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (122 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Conger communis Costa, 1844)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Muraena nigra Risso, 1810)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus inaequalis Facciolà, 1883)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Conger verus Risso, 1827)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus stenops Kaup, 1856)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus lineatus Bonnaterre, 1788)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus gussoni Cocco, 1829)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus spallanzani Risso, 1810)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Conger rubescens Ranzani, 1839)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus vitreus Kölliker, 1853)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications) (from synonym Anguilla conger (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (540 publications) (from synonym Conger vulgaris Yarrell, 1832)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (55 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus morrisii Gmelin, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus pellucidus (Couch, 1832))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Ophisoma obtusa (Swainson, 1839))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (81 publications) (from synonym Conger niger (Risso, 1810))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (86 publications) (from synonym Muraena conger Linnaeus, 1758)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus candidissimus Costa, 1832)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Ophidium pellucidum Couch, 1832)
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Conger conger) 
To FAO Species fact sheets 
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Muraena conger Linnaeus, 1758)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla conger (Linnaeus, 1758))
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus conger (Linnaeus, 1758))
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus candidissimus Costa, 1832)
To FishBase (from synonym Muraena nigra Risso, 1810)
To FishBase (from synonym Conger vulgaris Yarrell, 1832)
To FishBase (from synonym Conger rubescens Ranzani, 1839)
To FishBase (from synonym Conger verus Risso, 1827)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla obtusa Swainson, 1839)
To FishBase (from synonym Conger communis Costa, 1844)
To FishBase (from synonym Conger niger (Risso, 1810))
To FishBase (from synonym Ophidium pellucidum Couch, 1832)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophisoma obtusa (Swainson, 1839))
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus spallanzani Risso, 1810)
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus pellucidus (Couch, 1832))
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus stenops Kaup, 1856)
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus vitreus Kölliker, 1853)
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus inaequalis Facciolà, 1883)
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus gussoni Cocco, 1829)
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus morrisii Gmelin, 1789)
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus lineatus Bonnaterre, 1788)
To Fishipedia 
To FishSounds 
To GenBank (61008 nucleotides; 71991 proteins) 
To GenBank (61008 nucleotides; 71991 proteins) (from synonym Muraena conger Linnaeus, 1758)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To PESI 
To ITIS
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