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524. Muraenesox coniceps Jordan and Gilbert. 



Cape San Lucas to the coast of Colombia; generally common. 

 Miirsenesox. coniceps Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 

 1881, 348, Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Family 73. CONGRIDiE (LEPTOCEPHALIDiE). Conger eels 



Genus 192. CONGER Cuvier. Conger eels. 



a. Adult forms (Conger) : 



Conger Cuvier, Oken, in Regne Anim., Ed. I, 1817, 231 ("Les Congres" 



Cuvier, Oken, 1182) {Murxna conger Linnseus). 

 Congrus Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 1844, 107 (Mursena 



conger Linnseus). 



b. Larval forms (Leptocephali) : 



Leptocephalus Scopoli, Int. Hist. Xat., 1777, 453 (L. morrisi Gmelin). 

 Oxyurus Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 19 (0. vermiformis Lac^pede). 

 Helmictis Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 62. 

 Helmichthys Costa, Fauna Napoli, Pesci, tavoli 31, 1854 {H. diaphanus 



Costa) . 

 ? Leptocephalichthys Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neder., I, 69 (L. 



hypselosoma Bleeker, a larval form allied to Conger). 

 1 Diaphanichthys Peters, Sitzungsb., Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864, 399 (D. 



hrevicaudus Peters); larva allied to Conger. 



525. Conger conger (Linnaeus). Conger eel. 



Atlantic Ocean; generally common on both coasts, from Cape Cod to 

 Brazil, also on coasts of Asia and Africa. 



a. Adult forms: 



Murxna supremo marginx pinnse dorsalis nigro Artedi, Synon., 40, 1738, 



2, Mediterranean. 

 Mursena conger Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 245; based on Artedi. 

 Mursena nigra Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 93 (black variety), Nice. 

 Anguilla oceanica Mitchill, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1818, 407, off 



New York. 

 Conger verus Risso, Europ. M6rid., Ill, 1826, 201, Nice. 

 Conger vulgaris Cuvier, Ri'gne Anim., ed. 2, II, 1829, 350, France. 

 Conger rubescens Ranzani, De Novis Spec. Pise. Diss. Prima, 1838, 19, 



PI. V, fig. 5, Mediterranean. 

 Ophisoma obtusa Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., Reptiles, and Amphib., 



II, 1839, 395, Sicily. 

 Conger orbignyanus Valenciennes, D'Orbigny, Vov. Am. Merid., Poiss., 



1839, pi. 12, 1, South America. 

 Conger verreauxi Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 115, no locality. 

 Conger esculentus Poey, Alemorias, II, 1861, 346, Cuba. 



b. Larva! forms: 



Leptocephalus morrisi Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1150, 1877, Holyhead, 

 England. 



Ophidium pellucidum Couch, Lond. Mag. Nat. Hist., V, 1832, 3113, 

 742, England. 



Leptocephalus gracilis Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad., II, 1839, 524, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Leptocephalus spallanzani, candidissimus, etc., of European writers. 



526. Conger cavdilimbatus (Poey). 



Tropical parts of Atlantic; Pensacola to Cuba and Madeira. 

 Echelus caudilimbatus Poey, Repertorio, II, 1867, 249, Cuba. 

 Conger macrops Giinther, Cat., VIII, 1870, 40, Madeira, Baiiamas. 

 Conger caudicnla Bean, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 436, Pensacola. 



Genus 193. ARIOSOMA Swainson. 



Ariosoma Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., I, 18.38, 220; II, 1839, 195 (no 



type named, logotype as restricted by Bleeker and by Swainson 



Ophisoma acuta Swainson = 3/ )/ra°na balearica De la Roche). 

 Ophisoma Swainson, loc. cit., 1839; Ophisoma acuta Swainson; substitute 



for Ariosoma; the name preoccupied. 

 Congermuruna Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 71 (108) (Murspna balearica 



De la Roche, as restricted bv Bleeker). 

 Congrellus Ogilby, Proc. Linm Soc. New South Wales, XXIII, 1898, 



288 {Mursena balearica De la Roche). 



