Black garden eel

Heteroconger perissodon

The black garden eel is an eel in the family Congridae. It is a tropical, nonmigratory marine eel which is known from the western Pacific Ocean, including Ambon, Indonesia, and Negros, Philippines. It dwells at a depth range of 1–35 m. It leads a benthic lifestyle, and inhabits sand or mud, living solitary or in colonies. Males can reach a maximum total length of 53.7 cm.
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Naming

It was described by James Erwin Böhlke and John Ernest Randall in 1981.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassActinopterygii
OrderAnguilliformes
FamilyCongridae
GenusHeteroconger
SpeciesH. perissodon
Photographed in
Indonesia