Garden EelHeteroconger hassi

Facts

40.0 cm

Spotted Garden Eel, Spotted Garden-eel

Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to the Society Islands, north to the Ryukyu and the Ogasawara islands, south to northwestern Australia and New Caledonia; throughout Micronesia (Ref. 1602).

saltwater

Heteroconger

Congridae

Anguilliformes

Actinopterygii

Chordata

Animalia

source: FishBase

Description

The spotted garden eel, Heteroconger hassi, is a conger of the family Congridae, found in Indo-Pacific oceans at depths of between 7 and 45 m. Length is up to 40 cm, and the body diameter is up to about 14 mm.
source: Wikipedia

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