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Smalleye conger

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Actinopterygii

Family
  
Congridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Anguilliformes

Genus
  
Gnathophis

The Smalleye conger (Gnathophis microps) 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. It dwells at a depth range of 200-320 metres.

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Smalleye conger Wikipedia