Congridae

Bathycongrus polyporus

Bathycongrus polyporus

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• Anguilliform
• Medium

Bathycongrus polyporus is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by David G. Smith and Robert H. Kanazawa in 1977, originally under the genus Rhechias. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Straits of Florida and the northern coast of Cuba, in the western central Atlantic Ocean.