''Conger philippinus'' 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 i ...

(conger/garden eels).''Conger philippinus''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Robert H. Kanazawa in 1958.Kanazawa, R. H., 1958 (6 Oct.) ef. 12078''A revision of the eels of the genus Conger with descriptions of four new species.'' Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 108 (no. 3400): 219-267, Pls. 1-4. It is a

tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...

, marine eel which is known from the western central

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

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Conger Endemic fauna of the Philippines Fish of the Philippines Taxa named by Robert H. Kanazawa Fish described in 1958 {{Anguilliformes-stub