Galapagos garden eel
Species of fish
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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.[1] It dwells at a depth of 10 to 30 m (30 to 100 ft), and lives in large, nonmigratory colonies in clean, sandy substrates. Males can reach a maximum total length of 70 cm (2 ft 4 in).[4]
| Galapagos garden eel | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Congridae |
| Genus: | Heteroconger |
| Species: | H. klausewitzi |
| Binomial name | |
| Heteroconger klausewitzi (Eibl-Eibesfeldt & Köster, 1983) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Etymology
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.[6]
More on the eel
The diet of the Galapagos garden eel consists of zooplankton.[7] 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.[1]
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