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Myroconger
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Suborder:	Muraenoidei
Family:	Myrocongridae T. N. Gill, 1890
Genus:	Myroconger Günther, 1870
Type species
Myroconger compressus Günther, 1870
Species
6, see text.

Myroconger is the only genus of eels, the thin eels, in the family Myrocongridae. Very little is known about the group.

Until recently, only a single specimen from this family was known. This individual had been caught off Saint Helena in 1868. In the 1990s and 2000s, deep-sea submersibles identified several more individuals, including four further species. The first known species, M. compressus, was bright red in colour, but not all other species share this trait.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

• Myroconger compressus Günther, 1870 (red eel)
• Myroconger gracilis Castle, 1991
• Myroconger nigrodentatus Castle & Béarez, 1995 (orange eel)
• Myroconger pietschi Espíndola, Caires, Tighe, De Pinna & De Melo, 2021
• Myroconger prolixus Castle & Béarez, 1995
• Myroconger seychellensis Karmovskaya, 2006

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Myrocongridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Myrocongridae". FishBase. June 2011 version.
3. McClosker, John F. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 89. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Myroconger". FishBase. December 2012 version.
5. Espíndola, Vinicius C.; Caires, Rodrigo A.; Tighe, Kenneth A.; Pinna, Mario C. C. De; Melo, Marcelo R. S. De (2021-04-29). "A new species of the rare genus Myroconger Günther, 1870 (Anguilliformes: Myrocongridae) from Brazilian waters, tropical western Atlantic". Zootaxa. 4965 (3): 529–540. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4965.3.7. ISSN 1175-5334.

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