Heteroconger hassi , Photo: Michael Lahanas Cladus: Eukaryota The spotted garden eel, Heteroconger hassi, is a conger of the family Congridae, found in Indo-Pacific oceans at depths of between 7 and 45 m. Length is up to 60 cm, and the body diameter is up to about 14 mm. The species live in abundant colonies of up to a few thousand, on sandy burrows close to corals and reefs. They point their mouths towards the underwater current in order to catch drifting zooplankton. References Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Heteroconger hassi" in FishBase. June 2006 version.
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