Congridae

Black garden eel

Heteroconger perissodon

Fifty Three Point Seven Centimeters Eel from Indo West Pacific

• Black
• Brown
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Southeast Asia
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The black garden eel (Heteroconger perissodon) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by James Erwin Böhlke and John Ernest Randall in 1981. It is a tropical, nonmigratory marine eel which is known from the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean, including Ambon (Indonesia), Negros (Philippines), and the Andaman Islands (India).