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Heteroconger
Heteroconger is a genus of marine congrid eels. These small, slender garden eels live in groups where each individual has its own burrow. Usually, only the head and front half of the body is visible. The greatest species richness is in the Indo-Pacific, but species are also found in the warmer parts of the Atlantic (including the Caribbean) and the eastern Pacific. Its name relates to how a huge colony of the eels looks swaying in...
22 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 22 known species
Spotted Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger hassi
Brown Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger longissimus
Galápagos Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger klausewitzi
Taylor's Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger taylori
Yellow Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger luteolus
Black Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger perissodon
Pale Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger digueti
Banded Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger polyzona
Dusky Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger enigmaticus
Mercy's Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger mercyae
Mimic Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger pellegrini
Giraffe Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger camelopardalis
Papuan Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger guttatus
Heteroconger cobra
speciesHeteroconger cobra
Heteroconger fugax
speciesHeteroconger fugax
Heteroconger lentiginosus
speciesHeteroconger lentiginosus
Heteroconger obscurus
speciesHeteroconger obscurus
Heteroconger tricia
speciesHeteroconger tricia
White-ring Garden Eel
speciesHeteroconger canabus
Heteroconger balteatus
speciesHeteroconger balteatus
Heteroconger tomberua
speciesHeteroconger tomberua
Heteroconger chapmani
speciesHeteroconger chapmani
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 88872.