Silvery conger

The silvery conger (Ariosoma anago) also known as the sea conger, the darkfin conger, the dark-finned conger-eel, or simply the conger eel,^[2] is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).^[3] It was described by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel in 1846, originally under the genus Conger.^[4] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known to dwell in sandy and muddy bottoms on coasts in the Indo-west Pacific. Males can reach a maximum total length of 60 centimetres (24 in).

Silvery conger
juvenile
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Congridae
Genus:	Ariosoma
Species:	A. anago
Binomial name
Ariosoma anago (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
Conger anago Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 Anago anago (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Ariosome anago (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (misspelling)

The silvery conger's diet consists primarily of benthic crustaceans and finfish.^[5]