Fishes from the Puerto Rico Plateau

16 Dennis Marine Fishes of the Puerto Rico Plateau December 2000
UPRM collection, (1: 198 mm TL), trawl, Bahía Mayagüez CEER-B. Yoshioka, 19 Feb 88 [UPRM uncat.].
sapphire eel.
CONGRIDAE
Ariosoma balearicum (Delaroche, 1809) 8
Erdman (1956: 338), as A. impressa, (1: 152 mm TL), night light, Isla Magueyes, La Parguera, [USNM].
Smith (1989c), (1: 115 mm TL), above specimen [USNM 114659].
UPRM collection (8: 76-150 mm TL), rotenone, sand with seagrass, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [UPRM 2634]; (1:
75 mm TL), El Nacillo reef, La Parguera [UPRM 3347]; (2: 95-106 mm TL), sand, 21 m, Reef Bay, St. John
[UPRM 1919].
bandtooth conger.
Conger esculentus Poey, 1861
Stahl (1883: 80), as Conges [sic] esculentus, Puerto Rico.
Evermann & Marsh (1900: 70), as Leptocephalus conger, new genus and species.
Smith (1989c), (1: 700 mm TL), off Mayagüez [ANSP 139682].
UPRM collection (1: 584 mm TL), Corcega [UPRM 756].
Antillean conger.
Conger triporiceps Kanazawa, 1958
Randall (1968a: 28), Fig. 26, (1: 310 mm TL), El Negro reef, Mayagüez [UPRM 1593].
Almodóvar & Pagan (1971), (2: 260-295 mm TL), mangroves, Isla Guayacán, La Parguera.
Dyer et al. (1985), digenetic trematodes, (6), off Río Añasco.
UPRM collection, (1: 100 mm TL), 21 m, shelf edge, La Parguera [UPRM 2980]; (3: 106-333 mm TL), 15 m, Enrique
reef, La Parguera [UPRM 2981].
manytooth conger.
Heteroconger longissimus Günther, 1870 9
Böhlke (1957a), as Nystactes halis, (1: 481 mm TL paratype); 9-13 m; Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [ANSP 75162].
Kumpf (1965), as Taenioconger halis, observed, Botany Bay, St. Thomas.
Randall (1967), as Taenioconger halis, food habits.
Randall (1968a: 30), as Nystactichthys halis, (1: 401 mm TL), Fig. 27, St. John.
Collette & Talbot (1972), as Nystactichthys halis, obs., (300+), algal flats, Greater Lameshur Bay, St. John.
Martin & Patus (1984), as Nystactichthys halis, photograph, La Parguera.
Kimmel (1985b), as Heteroconger halis, obs., La Parguera.
Tyler & Luckhurst (1994), examined, (1), Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [ANSP 75162].
Dennis (pers. obs.), obs., Coki Beach, St. Thomas.
garden eel.
Uroconger syringinus Ginsburg, 1954
8 Smith & Kanazawa (1977) synonymized Ariosoma impressa with A. balearicum.
9 Saldanha et al. (1986) has synonymized H. halis with the eastern Atlantic species H. longissimus.