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

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Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt (December 21, 1930 – October 14, 2014) was an American ichthyologogist. Rosenblatt was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1930, and died in San Diego, California in 2014. Rosenblatt was awarded the Frederick H. Sto ...

in 1974, originally under the genus '' Taenioconger''.Cowan, G. I. M. and R. H. Rosenblatt, 1974 (28 Mar.) ef. 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

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, 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 burrows in nonmigratory colonies. Males can reach a maximum total length of . The white-ring garden eel's diet consists of zooplankton. It is currently listed as Data Deficient at the IUCN redlist due to dispute over its taxonomy, although it notes that if valid, the species may be under threat as a result of inhabiting an intrareef region in a range restricted to 1,000 km².''Heteroconger canabus''
at the IUCN redlist.

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Heteroconger Taxa named by Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt Fish described in 1974 {{Anguilliformes-stub