Heteroconger balteatus

Heteroconger balteatus

Slender garden eel swaying above Red Sea sand burrows

Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Indian Ocean
West Asia
Anguilliform
Compressed cross-section
Medium
Tropical fish

Heteroconger balteatus is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Peter Henry John Castle and John Ernest Randall in 1999. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea, in the western Indian Ocean.

Class: Teleosts
Order: True Eels
Family: Congridae
Genus: Heteroconger
Water type: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform