Congridae

Argentine conger

Conger orbignianus

Eel of South American Waters

• Tropical
• Near the Equator
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Africa
• South America
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The Argentine conger (Conger orbignianus) is a conger eel of the class Actinopterygii. It is found in its adult form on the South American coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, though its larval form has been discovered in the Gulf of Guinea on Africa's Atlantic coast.