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Conger cinereus (Ash-colored conger eel; Ashen conger eel; Ashen conger-eel; Blackedged conger; Black-edged conger; Blacklip conger; Conger eel; Indian conger eel; Longfin African conger; Longfin conger; Moustache conger; Mustache conger; Mustache eel; White eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The longfin African conger (Conger cinereus) is a conger of the family Congridae, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Marquesas and Easter islands, north to southern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia and Lord Howe Island, at depths down to 80 m. Length is up to 1.3 m.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Predators

Laticauda laticaudata (Common or blue-lipped sea krait)[1]
Laticauda saintgironsi[1]
Tursiops aduncus (Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dolichoenterum congeri[2]
Tubulovesicula angusticauda[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Foraging ecology of sea kraits Laticauda spp. in the Neo-Caledonian Lagoon, François Brischoux, Xavier Bonnet, Richard Shine, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 350: 145–151, 2007
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0