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The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden. The family includes over 220 species in 32 genera.

Genera
The Congridae is divided into the following subfamilies and genera: • Alaconger Schwarzhans, 2010 (2 species; otolith-based taxon; Late Cretaceous of the United States and Germany) • Bolcyrus Blot, 1978 (1 species, fossil; Eocene of Italy) • Congrophichthus Schwarzhans & Stringer,2020 (1 species; otolith-based taxon; Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene of the United States) • Voltaconger Blot, 1978' (1 species, fossil; Eocene of Italy) • Subfamily Bathymyrinae J. E. Böhlke, 1949 • Ariosoma Swainson, 1838 (39 species) • Bathymyrus Alcock, 1889 (three species) • Chiloconger Myers & Wade, 1941 (two species) • Kenyaconger D. G. Smith & Karmovskaya, 2003 (one species) • Parabathymyrus Kamohara, 1938 (six species) • Paraconger Kanazawa, 1961 (seven species) • Rostroconger D. G. Smith, 2015 (one species) • Paracongroides Blot, 1978 (1 species, fossil; Eocene of Italy) • Pavelichthys Bannikov & Fedotov, 1984 (1 species, fossil; Oligocene of Russia) • Subfamily Congrinae Kaup, 1856 • Acromycter D. G. Smith & Kanazawa, 1977 (five species) • Bassanago Whitley, 1938 (four species) • Bathycongrus Ogilby, 1898 (22 species) • Bathyuroconger Fowler, 1934 (six species) • Blachea Karrer & D. G. Smith, 1980 (two species) • Castleichthys D. G. Smith, 2004 (one species) • Conger Bosc, 1817 (21 species) • Congrhynchus Fowler, 1934 (one species) • Congriscus D. S. Jordan & C. L. Hubbs, 1925 (three species) • Congrosoma Garman, 1899 (one species) • Diploconger Kotthaus, 1968 (one species) • Gavialiceps Alcock, 1889 (five species) • Gnathophis Kaup, 1859 (27 species) • Japonoconger Asano, 1958 (three species) • Lumiconger Castle & Paxton, 1984 (one species) • Macrocephenchelys Fowler, 1856 (two species) • Paruroconger Blache & Bauchot, 1976 • Promyllantor Allcock, 1890 (three species) • Pseudophichthys Roule, 1915 (one species) • Rhynchoconger D. S. Jordan & C. L. Hubbs, 1925 (10 species) • Scalanago Whitley, 1935 (one species) • Smithconger Carnevale, Schwarzhans, Schrøder & Lindow, 2022 (two species, fossil & otolith; Eocene of Denmark & New Zealand) • Uroconger Kaup, 1856 (four species) • Xenomystax Gilbert, 1891 (five species) • Subfamily Heterocongrinae Günther, 1870 (garden eels) • Gorgasia Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 (14 species) • Heteroconger Bleeker, 1868 (24 species) ==See also==
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