''Heteroconger obscurus'', the obscure garden eel,Common names of ''Heteroconger obscurus''
at www.fishbase.org. is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Heteroconger obscurus''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

Wolfgang Klausewitz Wolfgang Klausewitz (20 July 1921 – 31 August 2018) was a German zoologist, ichthyologist, marine biologist and biohistorian. Early life Klausewitz was born in Berlin. He attended school in Berlin, then, in 1941, was sent as a soldier to North ...

and

Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (; 15 June 1928 – 2 June 2018) was an Austrian ethologist in the field of human ethology. In authoring the book which bears that title, he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to vol ...

in 1959, originally under the genus '' Xarifania''.Klausewitz, W. and I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959 (1 Sept.) ef. 2616''Neue Röhrenaale von den Maldiven und Nikobaren (Pisces, Apodes, Heterocongridae).'' Senckenbergiana Biologica v. 40 (nos 3/4): 135-153. It is a

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, tropical eel which is known from the eastern Indian Ocean, including the

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in India, and Andaman Island. It is known to dwell at a maximum depth of , and inhabits silty sediments. Males can reach a maximum total length of .

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obscurus Taxa named by Wolfgang Klausewitz Fish described in 1959 {{Anguilliformes-stub