Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Japonoconger proriger
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Actinopteri
Order
Anguilliformes
Family
Congridae
Genus
Japonoconger
Species
proriger
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Ophisoma prorigerum Gilbert 1891, Ariosoma prorigerum (Gilbert, 1891) based in Fricke, R. et al. (2023).
Origin: Native
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
- 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, Japonoconger proriger", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24732. Accessed 5 November 2026.