Cynoponticus

Cynoponticus is a genus of marine ray-fiined fishes belonging to the family Muraenesocidae, the pike congers. The fishes in this genus are found in the Eastern and Western Atlantic Oceans and the Eastern Pacific Ocean, with a single parapatric species in each region.

==Taxonomy== Cynoponticus was first proposed as a genus in 1845 by the Italian zoologist Oronzio Gabriele Costa, although the formal description of what was then its only species, C. ferox, was not published until 1846. The pages of Costa's publication were sold separately, in sets which were not organised systematically or chronologically, hence the different publication dates. The type locality of C. ferox was given as Ischia, an island in the Gulf of Naples. This genus is classified within the family Muraenesocidae, part of the suborder Congroidei in the order Anguilliformes, the eels.