{"id":6332,"date":"2026-08-20T01:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:14:33","slug":"congridae-de-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/congridae-de-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Congridae de Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phylum&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/chordata-de-chile\/\">Chordata<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;| Clase&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/actinopterygii-de-chile\/\">Actinopterygii<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>| Orden&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/anguilliformes-de-chile\/\">Anguilliformes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Investigador(es) a cargo:&nbsp;<\/strong>Tom\u00e1s Rom\u00e1n de la Fuente.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Citar como:&nbsp;<\/strong>Rom\u00e1n-de la Fuente, T.&nbsp;<em>Congridae de Chile<\/em>. ChileFauna. Recuperado el [inserte fecha de consulta] de [URL]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Congridae<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0Kaup, 1856<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La familia <strong>Congridae<\/strong>, conocidos com\u00fanmente como <strong>congrios verdaderos<\/strong> (no confundir con los congrios de la familia Ophidiidae presentes en las costas sudamericanas), es un destacado grupo de anguilas marinos pertenecientes al orden Anguilliformes. Poseen el cl\u00e1sico cuerpo alargado y cil\u00edndrico, piel lisa sin escamas, aletas pectorales bien desarrolladas y una aleta dorsal continua que nace justo por encima o detr\u00e1s de la base de las aletas pectorales. A diferencia de las morenas, mantienen sus aletas pectorales y poseen aberturas branquiales laterales bien definidas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Habitan en aguas tropicales, templadas y fr\u00edas de todos los oc\u00e9anos, ocupando desde ecosistemas costeros poco profundos y arrecifes de coral hasta el talud continental a miles de metros de profundidad. Entre sus miembros m\u00e1s curiosos se encuentran las \u00abanguilas de jard\u00edn\u00bb (subfamilia Heterocongrinae), que viven semienterradas verticalmente en el fondo marino formando grandes colonias. Son depredadores carn\u00edvoros nocturnos de peces peque\u00f1os y crust\u00e1ceos, y comparten el ciclo reproductivo caracter\u00edstico de los anguiliformes, pasando por una fase larval de tipo <strong>leptoc\u00e9falo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Congridae&nbsp;de Chile<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En aguas chilenas han sido registradas ocho especies de congrios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>N\u00famero de taxones en Chile:&nbsp;<\/strong>8 (especies v\u00e1lidas)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Bassanago albescens<\/em> (Barnard, 1923)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Bassanago nielseni <\/em>(Karmovskaya, 1990)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Conger cinereus <\/em>R\u00fcppell, 1828<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Gnathophis andriashevi <\/em>Karmovskaya, 1990<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Gnathophis cinctus<\/em> (Garman, 1899)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Gnathophis parini <\/em>Karmovskaya, 1990<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Gnathophis smithi <\/em>Karmovskaya, 1990<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Xenomystax atrarius <\/em>Gilbert, 1891<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Referencias<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>H\u00fcne, M. (2019).&nbsp;<\/strong>Lista sistem\u00e1tica actualizada de los peces de Chile. Gbif.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gbif-chile.mma.gob.cl\/ipt\/resource?r=peces#anchor-versions\">https:\/\/gbif-chile.mma.gob.cl\/ipt\/resource?r=peces#anchor-versions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phylum&nbsp;Chordata&nbsp;| Clase&nbsp;Actinopterygii&nbsp;| Orden&nbsp;Anguilliformes Investigador(es) a cargo:&nbsp;Tom\u00e1s Rom\u00e1n de la Fuente. Citar como:&nbsp;Rom\u00e1n-de la Fuente, T.&nbsp;Congridae de Chile. ChileFauna. Recuperado el [inserte fecha de consulta] de [URL] \u2014 Congridae\u00a0Kaup, 1856 La familia Congridae, conocidos com\u00fanmente como congrios verdaderos (no confundir con los congrios de la familia Ophidiidae presentes en las costas sudamericanas), es un destacado grupo &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/congridae-de-chile\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congridae de Chile<\/span> Leer m\u00e1s \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-especies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congridae de Chile - ChileFauna<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/congridae-de-chile\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congridae de Chile - ChileFauna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Phylum&nbsp;Chordata&nbsp;| Clase&nbsp;Actinopterygii&nbsp;| Orden&nbsp;Anguilliformes Investigador(es) a cargo:&nbsp;Tom\u00e1s Rom\u00e1n de la Fuente. 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