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Taxon: Genus Conger Bosc, 1817 (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Cuvier, 1816 ex L.A.G. Bosc, 1817
Unavailable original name:  Cuvier, 1816. Règne Anim. [ed. 1] 2, [Nov] 1816: 231.
Original name:  Bosc, L.A.G. 1817: 450.
Subsequent publication:  Oken, 1817. Isis (Oken) 1817: 1181.
Source for the authorship:  Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. 1989. Zool. Cat. Australia 7: 140-141.

Attributes

Name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology [ICZN, 1999: Art. 80.6] Ref: R.V. Melville & J.D.D. Smith (eds.), 1987. Offic. Lists & Indexes Zool.: 72 ("Oken, 1817") (Opinion 93, Direction 87).

Types

Type of: Congridae (Family) Kaup, 1856 Ref: R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021: 9 Apr 2025; 15 May 2025. [inferred]
Type of: Congrinae (Subfamily) Kaup, 1856 Ref: R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021: 9 Apr 2025; [<15 May 2025]. [inferred]
Type, by absolute tautonymy: Conger conger (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Ref: R.V. Melville & J.D.D. Smith (eds.), 1987: 72 ("Oken, 1817"). [implicit]

Synonyms

Senior subjective synonym: Leptocephalus (Genus) Scopoli, 1777, nom. rej. Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 2004-2016: 2 Oct 2012.
Rejected synonym: Leptocephalus (Genus) Scopoli, 1777, nom. rej. Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 2004-2016: 2 Oct 2012 (Opinion 93, Direction 87).
Synonymous name: Conger (Genus) Klein, 1775, nom. inval. Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 2004-2016: 2 Oct 2012.
Synonymous name: Leptocephalus (Genus) Scopoli, 1777, nom. rej. Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer et al., 2016-2017: 30 Jun 2017.
Including: Leptocephalus morrisii Gmelin, 1788 Ref: B. Grzimek et al. (eds.), 1974: 181-182.

Vernacular Names (Latin)

Stem: Congr- Ref: G.C. Steyskal, 1980: 174, 176.
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