The daggertooth pike conger or the darkfin pike eel, is a species of eel in the pike conger family, Muraenesocidae. They primarily live on soft bottoms in marine and brackish waters down to a depth of 800 m, but may enter freshwater. They commonly grow to about 1.5 m in length, but may grow as long as 2.2 m . Daggertooth pike congers occur in the Red Sea, on the coast of the northern Indian Ocean, and in the West Pacific from Indochina to Japan. It has also invaded the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.

Also known as:
English: Conger pikepike congerDarkfin pike eelpike eel
Japanese: ハモ
Japanese (Romanized): hamo
Latin species name: Muraenesox cinereus
Wikidata ID: Q1151328
Wikipedia title: Daggertooth pike conger
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