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The spotted garden eel is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 40 centimetres (16 in; 1.3 ft). Its body is anguiform (eel-like): long, thin, with a circular cross-section (14 millimetres (0.55 in) in average diameter) and a head of the same diameter as the body.
The garden eels develop and hatch out of their eggs while floating in the water and, when they are large enough, swim down to a sand bed and dig a burrow of their own. One of its top predators, the Pacific snake eel , Ophicthus triserialis , burrows into the sand near a colony, then digs under a garden eel's burrow and grabs its tail.
The majority of the 36 known species of garden eels live in the Indo-Pacific, but can be found in warm ocean water worldwide. [1] [2] [3] These small eels live in burrows on the sea floor and get their name from the behavior of poking their heads from their burrows while most of their bodies remain hidden. Since they tend to live in groups, the ...
Other common names include conger, spotted eel, red moray, speckled moray, white cong, white jawed moray, white-chinned moray and white-jawed moray eel. Spotted eels have a long snake-like body, white or pale yellow in general with small overlapping reddish brown to dark-brown spots. They are commonly 60 cm (24 in) in length and can grow up to ...
Males will often engage in a courtship display of protective behaviors and may bite rival eels. After a male has won a display, the male and female eel will stretch from their burrows to intertwine bodies. [8] Splendid garden eels are pelagic spawners, meaning that female eels will release fertilized eggs into the current. When the eggs hatch ...
Gorgasia is one of the two genera that belong to the subfamily Heterocongrinae (common name: garden eels). [1] This genus is classified by the behavioral pattern of burrowing 75% of their bodies in the sandy substrate they live in and protruding their upper body into the water current above, giving the appearance that they are planted into the ground (origin of common name).
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Spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi) Manatee Coast , which opened in 1999, is the cornerstone of the region, supporting the endangered Florida manatees , fish , stingrays , a sea turtle , and pelicans in a 192,000-US-gallon (730,000 L) indoor habitat.