Tropical Conger, Ariosoma scheelei (Strömman 1896)
Other Names: Scheele's Conger
A Tropical Conger, Ariosoma scheelei, at Anilao, Batangas, Philippines. Source: Andrey Ryanskiy / FishBase. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A greyish brown conger eel becoming whitish on the abdomen and ventral surface of the head.
Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2024, Ariosoma scheelei in Fishes of Australia, accessed 13 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/3906
Tropical Conger, Ariosoma scheelei (Strömman 1896)
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Distribution |
From off Rottnest Island, Western Australia, around the tropical north, to off the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria. Elsewhere the species in widespread in the Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Indian Ocean to the Philippines, Samoa and the Marshall Islands, south to Australia and New Caledonia. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin 146-178; Anal fin 119-135; Pectoral fin 14. Body depth at gill opening 15-22 in TL; dorsal fin originating above gill opening; anus positioned anterior to middle of body; jaw teeth small, villiform, in 2-3 rows anteriorly, in a single row posteriorly; intermaxillary teeth in several rows anteriorly, in a single row posteriorly. |
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Etymology |
The species is named in honour of Captain George von Schéele, who collected holotype |
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Species Citation |
Leptocephalus scheelei Strömman 1896, Leptocephalids in the University Zoological Museum at Uppsala: 21, pl.1 (figs.6-7). Type locality: Indonesia (as Malay Archipelago) and western Atlantic. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Tropical Conger, Ariosoma scheelei (Strömman 1896)
References
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.
Castle, P.H.J. 1964. Congrid leptocephali in Australasian waters with descriptions of Conger wilsoni (Bl. and Schn.) and C. verreauxi Kaup. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington (37): 1-44 figs 1-10
Castle, P.H.J. 1966. Die ichthyologische Ausbeute der ersten Westafrika-Fahrt des fischereitechnischen Forschungsschiffes "Walter Herwig": 3. The Eel Larvae (Leptocephali). Archiv für Fischereiwissenschaft 17(1): 19-35
Castle, P.H.J. 1968. The congrid eels of the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 33: 685-726 fig. 1 pls 105-108
Castle, P.H.J. 1986. Family No. 40, pp. 161-165, Pl. 7 in Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg : Macmillan South Africa xx + 1047 pp. 144 pls.
Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M. & Wantiez, L. 2011. Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) Neue Serie 4: 341-463
McCosker, J., Smith, D.G. & Tighe, K. 2019. Ariosoma scheelei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T199400A2591403. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T199400A2591403.en. Accessed on 22 August 2024.
Myers, R.F. 1999. Micronesian Reef Fishes. A comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. Guam : Coral Graphics vi 330 pp. 192 pls.
Strömman, P. 1896. Leptocephalids in the University Zoological Museum at Uppsala. Uppsala : Almqvist & Wiksell 53 pp. 5 pls. See ref at BHL
