EndangeredBasking Shark
Cetorhinus maximus
Bony fish · Anguilliformes · Congridae
Conger conger
There is not enough information to assess its risk of extinction.
It is the heaviest eel in the world, with a record of almost 72 kg, and breeds only once in its life: after a long migration into deep water to spawn, it dies shortly afterwards and never returns to the coast.
Weight
2.5 kg – 25 kg
Size
1.5 m – 3 m
Life expectancy
25 years
Diet
Carnivore
Feeds mainly on other animals.
Activity
Nocturnal
Active mainly at night.
Social structure
Solitary
Lives and hunts alone, joining others only to breed.
Sources consulted: ScienceDirect (Iberian waters age growth study) · Animalia.bio · LearnAboutNature · ResearchGate (Adriatic Sea study, Irish coastal waters study) · A-Z Animals · Animals.net · FishBase
Best time: All year round on rocky bottoms and wrecks of the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, at night, when it leaves its refuges to hunt.
Parks and dive sites where this species has been documented — showing 20 of 128.
Other species in the catalogue with the most in common with Conger — same habitat, park, country, tags or family.
Based on what we already know about conger.
The pins mark the parks and dive sites where its presence is documented.
