Second specimen-based record of a conger eel Conger cinereus (Anguilliformes: Congridae) from Kyushu, southern Japan

A single specimen (1062.2 mm total length) of the congrid eel, Conger cinereus Rüppell, 1871, was collected from Kamae, Saiki, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, southern Japan at a depth of ca. 15 m. The species has previously been recorded from the Ogasawara Islands, Mie, Wakayama, Tokushima, Kochi, Yamaguchi, Kagoshima prefectures (Satsuma Peninsula), Yaku-shima island, and the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. The present specimen represents the second specimen-based record of the species from Kyushu and the first from Oita Prefecture.