ID this fish?

[miketsp]

Taken on a recent night dive at Guarapari in Brazil.
Head like a fish, body like an eel - about 1.5m long. Tail like a Moray eel.
It continues well off the photo.
The DM said he'd never seen anything like it before in that region.

 

[Vie]

Looks like a conger eel of some sort.

 

[isurus]

Taken on a recent night dive at Guarapari in Brazil.
Head like a fish, body like an eel - about 1.5m long. Tail like a Moray eel.
It continues well off the photo.
The DM said he'd never seen anything like it before in that region.

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?id=1017

Conger triporiceps

 

[miketsp]

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?id=1017

Conger triporiceps

Thanks.
We'd never seen one of these down here although the reference you gave includes Brazil.
The size limit is definitely wrong. It states 100cm max but I have have another photo which I didn't post because it was from further away as it moved off and there is a lot of suspension so it becomes very hard to see if you drop the resolution below 1MB in order to post it. But when you look at the second photo in high resolution, the animal is well over 1m long.

 

[Diver0001]

Looks like a conger eel of some sort.

My first thought too. I don't know how big they get but i've seen them longer than my arm around here.

R..

 

[Vie]

Some congers such as Conger cinereus (found in the Indo-Pacific area) can be up to 130cm in length.