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Ariosoma anagoides (Bleeker, 1853)

Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 170 - 196; Anal soft rays: 122 - 145. Large and distinctive eye with a vertical elongated pupil and white blotches (Ref. 48635).

Common Names

  • Úhořovec indonéský , Czech , Czechia
  • Big-eye conger , English , Australia
  • Big-eye conger , English , Indonesia
  • Sea conger , English , Australia
  • Sea conger , English , Global
  • Peit-puurangerjas , Estonian , Estonia
  • Hana-anago , Japanese , Japan
  • 먹붕장어 , Korean , Korea (South)
  • 奇鰻 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 奇鳗 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 拟穴美体鳗 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 拟锥体康吉鳗 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 擬穴美體鰻 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 擬錐體康吉鰻 , Mandarin Chinese , Taiwan/Ch Taipei
  • Obud , Tagalog , Philippines

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Anguilliformes

    Family: Congridae

    Genus: Ariosoma

    Species: Ariosoma anagoides (Bleeker, 1853)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Western Pacific: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan southward to the East China Sea and the East Indies.

    • Biology

    Occurs in shallow sandy and muddy bottoms (Ref. 48635). Benthic (Ref. 75154). Several similar species throughout the Indo-Pacific (Ref. 48635). Rarely seen and usually at night on sand, rubble and mud bottoms in 3-15 m (Ref 90102).

    Habitat

    demersal