Bathycongrus

Bathycongrus is a genus of eels in the family Congridae.

Bathycongrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Congridae
Subfamily:	Congrinae
Genus:	Bathycongrus J. D. Ogilby, 1898
Type species
Congromuraena nasica Alcock, 1894[1]
Species
See text.
Synonyms[1]
Congrina D. S. Jordan & C. L. Hubbs, 1925 Microcephalocongrus ( Fowler, 1934 Pseudoxenomystax Breder, 1927 Rhechias D. S. Jordan, 1921 Uranoconger Fowler, 1934

Species

There are currently 30 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Bathycongrus aequoreus (C. H. Gilbert & Cramer, 1897)
• Bathycongrus albimarginatus Huang, Smith, Chang & Chen, 2018
• Bathycongrus bertini (Poll, 1953)
• Bathycongrus bimaculatus Smith & Ho, 2018
• Bathycongrus bleekeri Fowler, 1934
• Bathycongrus brunneus Huang, Ho & Chen, 2018
• Bathycongrus bullisi (D. G. Smith & Kanazawa, 1977) (bullish conger)
• Bathycongrus castlei Smith & Ho, 2018
• Bathycongrus dubius (Breder, 1927) (dubious conger)
• Bathycongrus graciliceps Smith & Ho, 2018
• Bathycongrus guttulatus (Günther, 1887) (Lined conger)
• Bathycongrus longicavis Karmovskaya, 2009
• Bathycongrus macrocercus (Alcock, 1894)
• Bathycongrus macroporis (Kotthaus, 1968)
• Bathycongrus macrurus (C. H. Gilbert, 1891) (Shorthead conger)
• Bathycongrus melanostomus Huang, Ho, Chen & Chan, 2022
• Bathycongrus nasicus (Alcock, 1894)
• Bathycongrus odontostomus (Fowler, 1934) (Toothy conger)
• Bathycongrus parapolyporus Karmovskaya, 2009
• Bathycongrus parviporus Karmovskaya, 2011^[3]
• Bathycongrus polyporus (D. G. Smith & Kanazawa, 1977)
• Bathycongrus retrotinctus (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (blackedge conger) (formerly known as Bathycongrus randalli)
• Bathycongrus thysanochilus (Reid, 1934) (Conger eel)
• Bathycongrus trilineatus (Castle, 1964)
• Bathycongrus trimaculatus Karmovskaya & D. G. Smith, 2008
• Bathycongrus unimaculatus Karmovskaya, 2009
• Bathycongrus varidens (Garman, 1899) (Largehead conger)
• Bathycongrus vicinalis (Garman, 1899) (Neighbor conger)
• Bathycongrus villosus Smith, Karmovskaya & da Silva, 2020
• Bathycongrus wallacei (Castle, 1968) (Longnose conger)

Former Species

Species formerly categorized as Bathycongrus, that are now listed under a different genus

• Bathycongrus mystax - now known as Gnathophis mystax (thinlip conger)