3 described species, see text Cynoponticus is a genus of marine ray-fiined fishes belonging to the family Muraenesocidae, the pike congers.

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.

[3] This genus is classified within the family Muraenesocidae, part of the suborder Congroidei in the order Anguilliformes, the eels.

This name is an allusion to the freocious appearrance of C. ferox which Costa described as having a "large mouth armed … with feral teeth".

[6] The largest published total length for this genus is 202 cm (80 in) for a red pike conger (C.