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Galapagos garden eel

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Species of fish

Galapagos garden eel
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Congridae
Genus: Heteroconger
Species: H. klausewitzi
Binomial name
Heteroconger klausewitzi
(Eibl-Eibesfeldt & Köster, 1983)
Synonyms
  • Taenioconger klausewitzi Eibl-Eibesfeldt & Köster, 1983

The Galapagos garden eel (Heteroconger klausewitzi) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Friedmann Köster in 1983, originally under the genus Taenioconger. 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. 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).

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.

More on the eel

The diet of the Galapagos garden eel consists of zooplankton. 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.

References

  1. ^ McCosker, J.E.; Béarez, P.; Lea, R.N. (2017) . "Heteroconger klausewitzi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T155178A115281326. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155178A4736742.en. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  2. "Synonyms of Heteroconger klausewitzi". fishbase.org.
  3. "Common names for Heteroconger klausewitzi". fishbase.org.
  4. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Heteroconger klausewitzi". FishBase.
  5. Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. and F. Köster (1983). "Taenioconger klausewitzi, a new garden-eel from the Galapagos". Noticias de Galápagos. 38: 26–27.
  6. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (30 August 2024). "Family CONGRIDAE Kaup 1856 (Conger Eels)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  7. "Food items reported for Heteroconger klausewitzi". fishbase.org.

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Taxon identifiers
Heteroconger klausewitzi


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