“…Three additional Ariosoma species, namely A. majus (Asano, 1958), A. melanospilos Kodeeswaran et al ., 2021 and A. dolichopterum Karmovskaya, 2015, were added more recently (Kodeeswaran et al ., 2021; Roy et al ., 2021), which brought the total members of Congridae to 13 genera and 21 species. Of these, two species of the genus Rhynchoconger , R. squaliceps (Alcock, 1894) and R. ectenurus (Jordan & Richardson, 1909), were reported from Indian waters previously, R. ectenurus from the west coast of India (Kotthaus, 1968; Manilo & Bogorodsky, 2003; Venu, 2013) and R. squaliceps from the Andhra Pradesh coast (Bay of Bengal; Alcock, 1894).…”