''Gnathophis grahami'', or Graham's conger,Common names for ''Gnathophis grahami''
at www.fishbase.org is an

eel Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...

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).''Gnathophis grahami''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya and

John Richard Paxton John Richard Paxton (16 January 1938 – 29 October 2023) was a United States-born Australian ichthyologist, who spent most of his career at the Australian Museum. He has a particular research interest in lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) and o ...

in 2000.Karmovskaya, E. S., and J. R. Paxton, 2000 ef. 25768''Revision of the Australian congrid eels of the genus Gnathophis (family Congridae), with descriptions of six new species.'' Journal of Ichthyology v. 40 (Suppl. 1): S1-S14. It is a

subtropical The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical zone, geographical and Köppen climate classification, climate zones immediately to the Northern Hemisphere, north and Southern Hemisphere, south of the tropics. Geographically part of the Ge ...

, marine eel which is known from

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

, in the southwestern

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

. It dwells at a depth range of 50–350 metres.

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Kenneth Graham (b. 1947), with the New South Wales Fisheries, who provided the type specimen of this species and other east coast specimens to the Australian Museum.

References

grahami Taxa named by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya Taxa named by John Richard Paxton Fish described in 2000 {{Congridae-stub