Gnathophis grahami

Fish

Usual depth54–79 m
Water temperature19–26 °C
Best monthsApril, May, and November
How commonRare

About this species

Gnathophis grahami, or Graham's conger, is an eel in the family Congridae. It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya and John Richard Paxton in 2000. It is a subtropical, marine eel which is known from New South Wales, Australia, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 50–350 metres.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Gnathophis grahami”, 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: 2 records
February: 14 records
March: 26 records
April: 42 records
May: 32 records
June: 24 records
July: 13 records
August: 21 records
September: 11 records
October: 16 records
November: 47 records
December: 8 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 54–79 m · Deepest record: 473.5 m

30–40 m: 1 records
40–50 m: 5 records
50–60 m: 51 records
60–70 m: 35 records
70–80 m: 101 records
80–90 m: 8 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110–120 m: 0 records
120–130 m: 1 records
130–140 m: 1 records
140+ m: 10 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 19–26 °C

18–20 °C: 8 records
20–22 °C: 80 records
22–24 °C: 157 records
24–26 °C: 6 records
26–28 °C: 5 records

Names and classification

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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.
256 open-data records from 1967 to 2009.

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