Red pike conger [SEP] parent taxon
Red pike conger
The red pike conger (Cynoponticus coniceps, also known as the conehead eel in Mexico) is an eel in the family Muraenesocidae (pike congers). It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1882, originally under the genus "Muraenesox". It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central and southeastern Pacific Ocean, including Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Peru, and Nicaragua. It dwells
Daggertooth pike conger
The dagger-tooth pike conger ("Muraenesox cinereus") is a species of eel. They primarily live on soft bottoms in marine and brackish waters down to a depth of , but may enter freshwater. They are common to about in length, but may grow as long as . Dagger-tooth pike congers occur in the Red Sea, on the coast of the northern Indian Ocean, and in the West Pacific from Indochina to Japan. It has also invaded the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.