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Heteroconger
''Heteroconger'' is a genus of marine congrid eels. These small, slender garden eels live in groups where each individual has its own burrow. Usually, only the head and front half of the body is visible. The greatest species richness is in the Indo-Pacific, but species are also found in the warmer parts of the Atlantic (including the Caribbean) and the eastern Pacific. Its name relates to how a huge colony of the eels looks swaying in the current. The garden eel is roughly 40 cm (16 in) long. The eel has large eyes compared to its body, and a weak sense of smell because of its tiny nostrils. It is timid around other animals and people, but slightly aggressive towards other males of its species. If it feels threatened, it retreats into its burrow and closes it with a mucus block so the predator cannot dig into its home. It has a gland in its tail that secretes a sticky substance that keeps the burrow from falling in on itself and burying the garden eel in sand. Scientist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heteroconger Canabus
The white-ring garden eel (''Heteroconger canabus''), also known as the Cape garden eel in Mexico, is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Heteroconger canabus'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Garry I. McTaggart-Cowan and Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt in 1974, originally under the genus ''Taenioconger''.Cowan, G. I. M. and R. H. Rosenblatt, 1974 (28 Mar.) [ref. 12] ''Taenioconger canabus, a new heterocongrin eel (Pisces: Congridae) from Baja California, with a comparison of a closely related species.'' Copeia 1974 (no. 1): 55-60. It is a marine biology, marine, tropical eel which is known from the Gulf of California, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. It is known to dwell at a depth of , and inhabits sand sediments near reefs, where it forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |