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Congridae (Conger and garden eels) > Congrinae
Etymology: Bathycongrus: Greek, bathys = deep + Latin, conger = conger (Ref. 45335); melanostomus: Name from Greek ‘melano’ for black and ‘stomus’ meaning mouth, referring to the black mouth.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino batidemersal; rango de profundidad ? - 300 m (Ref. 127460). Subtropical
Northwest Pacific: eastern Taiwan.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 43.9 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 127460)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
This moderately elongate species is distinguish by the following characters: uniformly small teeth on vomer forming an oval patch; a strongly reduced caudal fin; abdomen, a short, broad and blunt snout, intermaxillary teeth barely exposed when mouth closed; pre-anal vertebrae 31, precaudal vertebrae 41, total vertebrae 133–135; pre-anal lateral-line pores 31. Colouration: body color ranges from dark gray to dark brown; mouth cavity and gill chamber are blackish; dorsal and anal fins grayish with black margins; yellowish pectoral fin with a black margin (Ref. 127460).
Cross section: circular.
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Huang, J.-F., H.-C. Ho, H.-M. Chen and T.-Y. Chan, 2022. A new species of the congrid eel genus Bathycongrus (Order Anguilliformes) from eastern Taiwan. Zootaxa 5189(1):78-86. (Ref. 127460)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00062 (0.00029 - 0.00132), 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): 3.8 ±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): Low to moderate vulnerability (34 of 100).
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