Conger

About this species

The southern conger is a conger of the family Congridae, found in the eastern Indian Ocean and south-western Pacific Ocean, including southern Australia and New Zealand, at depths down to 100 m in broken rocky reef areas. Length is up to 2 m and weight may be up to 5 kg.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Southern 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: 34 records
February: 34 records
March: 60 records
April: 34 records
May: 39 records
June: 27 records
July: 36 records
August: 20 records
September: 23 records
October: 22 records
November: 39 records
December: 36 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 12–420 m · Deepest record: 1,100 m

0–10 m: 27 records
10–20 m: 16 records
20–30 m: 17 records
30–40 m: 7 records
40–50 m: 21 records
50–60 m: 43 records
60–70 m: 32 records
70–80 m: 28 records
80–90 m: 16 records
90–100 m: 8 records
100–110 m: 4 records
110+ m: 98 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 8–29 °C

6–8 °C: 44 records
8–10 °C: 0 records
10–12 °C: 0 records
12–14 °C: 47 records
14–16 °C: 118 records
16–18 °C: 71 records
18–20 °C: 20 records
20–22 °C: 36 records
22–24 °C: 4 records
24–26 °C: 1 records
26–28 °C: 3 records
28–30 °C: 1 records

Photos

(c) Frank Ashwood, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Luca Davenport-Thomas, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Frank Ashwood, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) M Rutherford, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Michael Berardozzi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) apteryx54, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) William Harland, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Conger, conger eel, koiro, Southern Conger, Southern Conger Eel

Names in 1 more languages

Spanish: Congrio de Verreaux

Similar species

Conger
Conger conger
Longfin African conger
Conger cinereus
Whitespotted conger
Conger myriaster
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).
410 open-data records from 1900 to 2017.
Species data updated November 1, 2026.