A family of marine eels found in Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, including conger eels and garden eels.
From Latin conger (conger eel) + -idae (taxonomic family suffix). This is the formal scientific classification for this group of eels established in modern taxonomy.
Congridae are secretly everywhere—garden eels that stick up from the ocean floor like periscopes are Congridae, as are the conger eels in sushi restaurants.
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