Congridae

bandtooth conger

Ariosoma balearicum

Fish Reaching Thirty Five Centimeters in the Indian Ocean

• Tropical
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Africa
• Europe
• North America
• South America
• Anguilliform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

The bandtooth conger (Ariosoma balearicum), also known as the Baleares conger or the Balearic conger, is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by François Étienne Delaroche in 1809, originally under the genus Muraena. It is a subtropical, marine eel which is known from the western and eastern Atlantic and the western Indian Ocean, including North Carolina, United States; the northern Gulf of Mexico, northern South America, Canada, Portugal, Angola, the Mediterranean, and the Red Sea.