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Spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi)
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Spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi) specimen
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Congridae

Spotted garden eel

Heteroconger hassi

Eel from Indo Pacific

  • Tropical
  • Transcontinental
  • Marine fish
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • Oceania
  • Anguilliform
  • Medium
  • Tropical fish

Spotted garden eel is known around Indo-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 45 cm.

Family
Congridae
Maximum length
45 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
anguilliform
Distribution
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to the Society Islands, north to the Ryukyu and the Ogasawara islands, south to northwestern Australia and New Caledonia; throughout Micronesia (Ref. 1602 ).
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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