Proceedings of 
tre United States 
National Museum 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION +- WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Volume 113 1961 Number 3450 
PARACONGER, A NEW GENUS 
WITH THREE NEW SPECIES OF EELS 
(FAMILY CONGRIDAE) 
By Rosert H. Kanazawa 
Echelus caudilimbatus Poey (1867, p. 247) and the related species, 
Conger macrops Giinther (1870, p. 40) and Leptocephalus harringtonen- 
sis Mowbray (1931, p. 1), were omitted from the genus Conger Oken as 
redefined by Kanazawa (1958). Modern workers have allocated these 
species to the genus Conger; however, they possess characters in com- 
mon that are sufficiently distinctive to warrant the recognition of a 
new genus. ‘This new genus is here described with an appraisal of the 
species, three of which are new. 
The specimens in the collections of the following institutions form 
the basis of this study: U.S. National Museum (USNM); Museum of 
Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ); Department of 
Zoology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Chicago 
Natural History Museum (CNHM); Bingham Oceanographic Collec- 
tion, Yale University (BOC); Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia (ANSP); Museu Municipal do Funchal, Madeira (MMF); 
and Institut Frangais d’Afrique Noire, Gorée, Senegal (IFAN). 
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