Congridae

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.