Bathycongrus Ogilby, 1898

Karmovskaya, Emma S. & Smith, David G., 2008, Bathycongrus trimaculatus, a new congrid eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) from the southwestern Pacific, with a redescription of Bathycongrus bleekeri Fowler, Zootaxa 1943, pp. 26-36 : 27

Bathycongrus Ogilby, 1898

Bathycongrus Ogilby, 1898: 292 ; type species Congromuraena nasica Alcock, 1893

Rhechias Jordan 1921:644 ; type species Rhechias armiger Jordan, 1921

Congrina Jordan & Hubbs 1925:192, 196; type species Congermuraena aequorea Gilbert & Cramer 1897 Pseudoxenomystax Breder 1927:6 ; type species Pseudoxenomystax dubius Breder 1927

Microcephalocongrus (subgenus of Bathycongrus ) Fowler 1934:270; type species. Bathycongrus megalops Fowler 1934 Uranoconger Fowler 1934:274 ; type species Uranoconger odontostomus Fowler 1934

Diagnosis. Eels of the subfamily Congrinae , distinguished by the following characters: tail slender and flexible; snout projecting beyond lower jaw, tip fleshy, extending beyond intermaxillary teeth; flange on upper lip rudimentary or absent; adnasal pore absent, some head pores enlarged; teeth moderate to slightly enlarged, intermaxillary patch exposed when mouth closed, vomerine teeth in a short rounded patch; preorbital bone with three ventral projections; stomach and intestine black.