Heteroconger chapmani

Heteroconger chapmani

Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Pacific Ocean
Southeast Asia
Anguilliform
Large
Tropical fish

Heteroconger chapmani is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Albert William Herre in 1923. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from a single specimen collected from the Philippines, in the western central Pacific Ocean.

Class: Teleosts
Order: True Eels
Family: Congridae
Genus: Heteroconger
Maximum length: 69 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform
Distribution: Western Central Pacific: Philippines. Because Herre's description of Heteroconger chapmani was not detailed enough to confidently refer the species to any garden eel known today and because the holotype and only specimen was destroyed in Manila during World War II, Castle and Randall (1999) regard this species as unidentifiable (Ref. 33408 ).
Conservation status: DDData Deficient

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