The yellow congerCommon names of Rhynchoconger flavus at www.fishbase.org. (Rhynchoconger flavus) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).Rhynchoconger flavus at www.fishbase.org. It was described by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean in 1896.Goode, G. B. and T. H. Bean, 1896 (23 Aug.) [ref. 1848] Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Special Bulletin U. S. National Museum No. 2: Text: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553, Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26, 123 pls. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Gulf of Mexico and the mouth of the Amazon River, in the western Atlantic Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of , and inhabits soft sediments. Males can reach a maximum total length of , but more commonly reach a TL of .
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