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Congridae (Conger and garden eels) > Congrinae
Etymology: Rhynchoconger: Greek, rhingchos = snout + Latin, conger = conger (Ref. 45335); randalli: Named for John Ernest Randall (USA), posthumously.
Eponymy: Dr John ‘Jack’ Ernest Randall Jr. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino demersal; rango de profundidad 36 - 40 m (Ref. 129532). Tropical
Eastern Indian Ocean: Bay of Bengal, India.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 59.9 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 129532)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Vértebra: 125 - 136. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: with a distinct pentagonal vomerine tooth patch; posterior tip of vomer clearly ends with single tooth before the anterior level of eye; vomerine tooth patch with 48-52 teeth in 8-9 rows; ethmovomerine tooth patch with 60-64 teeth in 7-8 rows; posterior margin of the eye just before the rictus; dorsal-fin origin slightly anterior to the level of gill opening; vertebrae: predorsal 7-8, preanal 29-31, total 125+ - 136+; dorsal-fin rays before vent 44-47; peritoneum and stomach colour pale (Ref. 129532).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Acharya, S., S.R. Mohanty, D. Ray, S.S. Mishra and A. Mohapatra, 2022. A new congrid eel, Rhynchoconger randalli sp. nov. (Congridae: Anguilliformes), with a pentagonal pattern of vomer dentition from the Bay of Bengal, Indian waters. Zootaxa 5174(2):188-194. (Ref. 129532)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Herramientas
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia
82804): PD
50 = 0.5010 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00062 (0.00029 - 0.00132), b=3.19 (3.01 - 3.37), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia
69278): 3.9 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resiliencia (Referencia
120179): Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref.
59153): Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100).
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