Galapagos garden eel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Congridae |
Genus: | Heteroconger |
Species: | H. klausewitzi
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Binomial name | |
Heteroconger klausewitzi (
Eibl-Eibesfeldt &
Köster, 1983)
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Synonyms [2] | |
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The Galapagos garden eel [3] (Heteroconger klausewitzi) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). [4] It was described by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Friedmann Köster in 1983, originally under the genus Taenioconger. [5] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central and southeastern Pacific Ocean, including Colombia, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, and Panama. [6] It dwells at a depth of 10 to 30 m (33 to 98 ft), and lives in large, nonmigratory colonies in clean, sandy substrates. Males can reach a maximum total length of 70 cm (28 in; 2.3 ft). [4]
The fish is named in honor of German ichthyologist Wolfgang Klausewitz, who visited the Galápagos Islands where this eel occurs, with the senior author in the 1950s. [7]
The diet of the Galapagos garden eel consists of zooplankton. [8] Due to its widespread distribution in the eastern Pacific, lack of major threats, and lack of observed population decline, the IUCN redlist currently lists the species as Least Concern. [6]
Galapagos garden eel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Congridae |
Genus: | Heteroconger |
Species: | H. klausewitzi
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Binomial name | |
Heteroconger klausewitzi (
Eibl-Eibesfeldt &
Köster, 1983)
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Synonyms [2] | |
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The Galapagos garden eel [3] (Heteroconger klausewitzi) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). [4] It was described by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Friedmann Köster in 1983, originally under the genus Taenioconger. [5] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central and southeastern Pacific Ocean, including Colombia, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, and Panama. [6] It dwells at a depth of 10 to 30 m (33 to 98 ft), and lives in large, nonmigratory colonies in clean, sandy substrates. Males can reach a maximum total length of 70 cm (28 in; 2.3 ft). [4]
The fish is named in honor of German ichthyologist Wolfgang Klausewitz, who visited the Galápagos Islands where this eel occurs, with the senior author in the 1950s. [7]
The diet of the Galapagos garden eel consists of zooplankton. [8] Due to its widespread distribution in the eastern Pacific, lack of major threats, and lack of observed population decline, the IUCN redlist currently lists the species as Least Concern. [6]