Hairy conger

Hairy conger

Taxobox
name = Hairy conger


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Anguilliformes
familia = Congridae
genus = "Bassanago"
species = "B. hirsutus"
binomial = "Bassanago hirsutus"
binomial_authority = (Castle, 1960)

The hairy conger, "Bassanago hirsutus", is a conger of the family "Congridae", found on the soft bottom of the continental slopes around southern Australia, and New Zealand. Its length is up to 1 m.

The hairy conger is similar to the swollen-headed conger eel, but, as its common name implies, the whole body is covered with small hair-like . The teeth are minute and in many rows in each jaw. In coloration these eels vary from a pale blue-grey to a creamy white on the dorsal surface, and white below, usually with a dark edge on the dorsal and anal fins.

References

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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8


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