Gnathophis longicauda, the little conger, little conger eel or silver conger,Common names for Gnathophis longicauda at www.fishbase.org. is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Edward Pierson Ramsay and James Douglas Ogilby in 1888, originally under the genus Congromuraena.Ramsay, E. P. and J. D. Ogilby, 1888 (Mar. 28) [ref. 18601] Descriptions of two new fishes from Port Jackson. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Series 2) v. 2 (pt 4): 1021-1023. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is endemic to Australia, in the Indo-West Pacific. It dwells at a depth range of 2–99 metres, and inhabits the continental shelf and slope.
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