Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bathycongrus varidens
Congrio cabezón, Largehead conger
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Anguilliformes
Family
Congridae
Genus
Bathycongrus
Species
varidens
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Uroconger varidens Garman, 1899 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bathycongrus varidens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24730. Accessed 5 November 2026.