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Paraconger
''Paraconger'' is a genus of eels in the family Congridae. It currently contains the following species: * ''Paraconger californiensis'' Robert H. Kanazawa, Kanazawa, 1961 (Californian conger) * ''Paraconger caudilimbatus'' (Felipe Poey y Aloy, Poey, 1867) (Margintail conger) * ''Paraconger guianensis'' Robert H. Kanazawa, Kanazawa, 1961 * ''Paraconger macrops'' (Albert Günther, Günther, 1870) (Blackspot conger) * ''Paraconger notialis'' Robert H. Kanazawa, Kanazawa, 1961 (Guinean conger) * ''Paraconger ophichthys'' (Samuel Garman, Garman, 1899) * ''Paraconger similis'' (Charles Barkley Wade, Wade, 1946) (Shorttail conger) References * Congridae {{Anguilliformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraconger Macrops
The blackspot conger at www.fishbase.org. (''Paraconger macrops'') is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Paraconger macrops'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Albert Günther in 1870, originally under the genus ''Conger''.Günther, A., 1870 (25 June) [ref. 1995] ''Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum.'' Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraconger Caudilimbatus
The margintail conger at www.fishbase.org. (''Paraconger caudilimbatus'') is an in the family (conger/garden eels).''Paraconger caudilimbatus'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by |
Paraconger Similis
The shorttail conger at www.fishbase.org. (''Paraconger similis'') is an in the family (conger/garden eels).''Paraconger similis'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by |
Paraconger Californiensis
The Californian conger (''Paraconger californiensis''), also known as the ringeye conger, at www.fishbase.org. is an in the family (conger/garden eels).''Paraconger californiensis'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by |
Paraconger Notialis
The Guinean conger at www.fishbase.org. (''Paraconger notialis'') is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Paraconger notialis'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Robert H. Kanazawa in 1961.Kanazawa, R. H., 1961 (26 Jan.) |
Paraconger Guianensis
''Paraconger guianensis'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Paraconger guianensis'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by in 1961.Kanazawa, R. H., 1961 (26 Jan.) ''Paraconger, a new genus with three new species of eels (family Congridae).'' Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 113 (no. 3450): 1-14, Pls. 1-2. It is a , |
Paraconger Ophichthys
''Paraconger ophichthys'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Paraconger ophichthys'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by in 1899, originally under the genus '' Atopichthys''.Garman, S., 1899 (Dec.) ''The Fishes. In: Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands ... by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891 ...'' No. XXVI. Memoirs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congridae
The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden (thus the name). The family includes over 180 species in 32 genera. The European conger, ''Conger conger'', is the largest of the family and of the Anguilliformes order that includes it; it has been recorded at up to in length and weighing . Congrids are found in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas around the world. Clear distinguishing features among congrids are few; they all lack scales, and most possess s. They feed on crustaceans and small fish, and unlike s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert H
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and '' berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Poey Y Aloy
Felipe Poey (May 26, 1799 – January 28, 1891) was a Cuban zoologist. Biography Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and traveled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish, later supplying Georges Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in na ... and Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France. Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen am Neckar, Esslingen in Swabia (Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''". He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Garman
Samuel Walton Garman (June 5, 1843 – September 30, 1927), or "Garmann" as he sometimes styled himself, was a naturalist/zoologist from Pennsylvania. He became noted as an ichthyologist and herpetologist. Biography Garman was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, on 5 June 1843. In 1868 he joined an expedition to the American West with John Wesley Powell. He graduated from the Illinois State Normal University in 1870, and for the following year was principal of the Mississippi State Normal School. In 1871, he became professor of natural sciences in Ferry Hall Seminary, Lake Forest, Illinois, and a year later became a special pupil of Louis Agassiz. He was a friend and regular correspondent of the naturalist Edward Drinker Cope, and in 1872 accompanied him on a fossil hunting trip to Wyoming. In 1870 he became assistant director of herpetology and ichthyology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. His work was mostly in the classification of fish, especially sharks, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
