''Bathycongrus bleekeri'' is an eel in the family

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 in ...

(conger/garden eels).''Bathycongrus bleekeri''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

Henry Weed Fowler Henry Weed Fowler (March 23, 1878 – June 21, 1965) was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Holmesburg, Pennsylvania. He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan. He joined the Academy of Natural Sciences in Ph ...

in 1934.Fowler, H. W., 1934 (20 Jan.) ef. 1416''Descriptions of new fishes obtained 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas.'' Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 85 (for 1933): 233-367. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

, in the western central Pacific Ocean. It is known to dwell at a depth of 51 metres. Males can reach a maximum

total length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology. Overall length Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured f ...

of 8 centimetres.

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bleekeri Fish described in 1934 {{Anguilliformes-stub