Spotted garden eel
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| Species: | H. hassi
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| Heteroconger hassi (Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959)
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The spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi) or lazy gob,[1] is a conger of the family Congridae, found in Indo-Pacific oceans at depths of between 7 and 45 m. Length is up to 40 cm, and the body diameter is up to about 14 mm.[2] The species live in abundant colonies of up to a few thousand, on sandy burrows close to corals and reefs. They point their mouths towards the underwater current in order to catch drifting zooplankton.
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Heteroconger hassi". FishBase. June 2006 version.
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