Congridae

conger eel

Conger oceanicus

Eel in Mexican Waters

• Tropical
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• North America
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The American conger (Conger oceanicus) is a species of eel in the family Congridae. Other common names for this fish include conger, dog eel, poison eel and sea eel. It is a marine fish with a widespread distribution in the Western Atlantic from Cape Cod in Massachusetts to northeastern Florida in United States and the northern Gulf of Mexico, and is also reported from near the mid-Atlantic island of St.