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White-ring Garden Eel
Heteroconger canabus
The white-ring garden eel (Heteroconger canabus), also known as the Cape garden eel in Mexico, is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Garry I. McTaggart-Cowan and Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt in 1974, originally under the genus Taenioconger. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Gulf of California, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. It is known to dwell at a depth of 20 m (66 ft), and inhabits sand...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 102699.