Congridae

Smalleye conger

Gnathophis microps

Eel from the Eastern Indian Ocean

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Oceania
• Anguilliform
• Medium

Gnathophis microps, the smalleye conger, is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya and John Richard Paxton in 2000. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from western Australia, in the eastern Indian Ocean.