White-spotted eel , or Japanese conger [2] ( lat. Conger conger ), is a fish of the conger family (Congridae) [3] . Valuable subject of fishing. It is considered the most delicious fish among the Congers . It is a traditional object of fishing and mariculture in Japan.
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Area
- 3 Biology
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Description
Body length up to 1 m. Head and body are covered with large white spots. The lower jaw varies in size, premaxillary teeth do not protrude. On jaws on one row of teeth. The preanal lateral pores are 39–43. The vertebrae are 142-148 [4] .
Range
Distributed in the northwest Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan , the Korean Peninsula , and in the East China Sea .
Biology
Marine demersal oceanodromic fish of moderate latitudes [5] . Lives at depths up to 320–830 m. A common view on sandy-silty soils off the coast of Japan [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Synonyms of Conger myriaster (Brevoort, 1856) in the FishBase database (English) (Retrieved June 11, 2017) .
- ↑ Reshetnikov Yu.S. , Kotlyar A.N. , Russ T.S. , Shatunovsky M.I. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1989 .-- S. 110-111. - 12,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .
- ↑ Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino 1984 The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p.
- ↑ Nakabo, T. 2002 Fishes of Japan with pictorial keys to the species, English edition I. Tokai University Press, Japan, pp v-866.
- ↑ FAO-FIGIS 2001 A world overview of species of interest to fisheries. Chapter: Conger myriaster. Retrieved on 24 May 2005, from www.fao.org/figis/servlet/species?fid=2996. 2p. FIGIS Species Fact Sheets. Species Identification and Data Program-SIDP, FAO-FIGIS
- ↑ Yamada, U., S. Shirai, T. Irie, M. Tokimura, S. Deng, Y. Zheng, C. Li, YU Kim and YS Kim, 1995, Names and illustrations of fishes from the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea., Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation, Tokyo, Japan. 288 p.
Links
- Conger myriaster in the FishBase database.
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- 真 穴 子 、 Common japanese conger .