[4] It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1882, originally under the genus Muraenesox.

[5] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central and southeastern Pacific Ocean, including Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Peru, and Nicaragua.

[1] It dwells at a depth range of 10 to 100 metres (33 to 328 ft), and inhabits sediments of sand and mud.

[6] It is of commercial interest to fisheries, and is considered to have high quality flesh.

[1] The IUCN redlist currently lists Cynoponticus coniceps as Data Deficient, due to a lack of information on how the species is affected by fishing activities.