Conger marginatus

About this species

Conger marginatus, the Hawaiian mustache conger, is a species of conger eel described by Achille Valenciennes in 1850.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Conger marginatus”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 5 records
February: 6 records
March: 4 records
April: 12 records
May: 19 records
June: 20 records
July: 8 records
August: 10 records
September: 15 records
October: 14 records
November: 5 records
December: 7 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 2–24 m · Deepest record: 23.8 m

0–10 m: 3 records
10–20 m: 0 records
20–30 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 25–26 °C

24–26 °C: 11 records

Photos

(c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Robin White, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) My-Lan Le, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) jeyre, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Robin White, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

Similar species

Conger
Conger conger
Longfin African conger
Conger cinereus
Whitespotted conger
Conger myriaster
Conger
Conger verreauxi
Cape conger
Conger wilsoni
Formosa Conger
Conger erebennus

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
34 open-data records from 1889 to 1993.
Species data updated November 1, 2026.