Whitespotted conger

Conger myriaster

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth15–251 m
Water temperature15–29 °C
Best monthsSeptember and October
How commonOccasional

Photo credit: (c) Daiju Azuma, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist

About this species

The whitespotted conger is a marine conger eel, widespread in the northwest Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China, Taiwan, and the Philippines. It is a commercially important species.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Whitespotted conger”, 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: 5 records
May: 14 records
June: 9 records
July: 14 records
August: 5 records
September: 36 records
October: 26 records
November: 15 records
December: 14 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 15–251 m · Deepest record: 2,974 m

0–10 m: 4 records
10–20 m: 12 records
20–30 m: 39 records
30–40 m: 26 records
40–50 m: 2 records
50–60 m: 0 records
60–70 m: 1 records
70–80 m: 1 records
80–90 m: 1 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110+ m: 41 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 15–29 °C

14–16 °C: 8 records
16–18 °C: 10 records
18–20 °C: 110 records
20–22 °C: 11 records
22–24 °C: 3 records
24–26 °C: 2 records
26–28 °C: 5 records
28–30 °C: 15 records

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Names and classification

English: Whitespotted conger, Conger Eel, whitespotted conger, Whitespotted Conger Eel

Names in 5 more languages

Spanish: Congrio del Pacífico, Congrio de Manchas Blancas
French: Congre du Pacifique Nord-ouest
Japanese: Anago, Maanago, Ma-Anago, マアナゴ
Korean: 붕장어, 아나고
Simplified Chinese: 星康吉鰻, 沙鰻, 海鰻, 穴子鰻, 糯米鰻, 繁星糯鰻, 臭腥鰻

Other scientific names: Anguilla myriaster, Astroconger myriaster

Similar species

Conger
Conger conger
Longfin African conger
Conger cinereus
Conger
Conger verreauxi
Cape conger
Conger wilsoni
Conger marginatus
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).
377 open-data records from 1906 to 2021.
Species data updated November 1, 2026.

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