Garden eel

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Garden eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Anguilliformes Family: Congridae Genus: Heteroconger Species: H. cobra
Binomial name
Heteroconger cobra Böhlke & Randall, 1981

The garden eel, Heteroconger cobra, is a conger of the family Congridae, found in the western Central Pacific from Honiara, the Solomon Islands and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, as well as the Red Sea as far north as the Sinai peninsula. They occur in colonies, on sloping sand bottoms.

[edit] References

• "Heteroconger cobra". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. June 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.