Congridae

bristletooth conger

Xenomystax congroides

Eel from the Amazon Basin

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

The bristletooth conger (Xenomystax congroides) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by David G. Smith and Robert H. Kanazawa in 1989. It is a marine, deep water–dwelling eel which is known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including northeastern Florida, U.S.A.; the Gulf of Mexico, the Amazon River, the Bahamas and the West Indies.