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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] |
Heteroconger Camelopardalis
''Heteroconger camelopardalis'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Heteroconger camelopardalis'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Hugh Roger Lubbock in 1980.Lubbock, R., 1980 (Sept.) ef. 8694''The shore fishes of Ascension Island.'' Journal of Fish Biology v. 17 (no. 3): 283-303. It is a non-migratory marine, eel which is known from the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotted Garden Eel
The spotted garden eel (''Heteroconger hassi'') is a species of heteroconger belonging to the family Congridae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific. Description The spotted garden eel is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of . Its body is anguiform (eel-like): long, thin, with a circular cross-section ( in average diameter) and a head of the same diameter as the body. The head appears shortened because the large mouth is close to the also large eyes. Nostrils are small and positioned in the center of the upper lip. The body is white and covered with many small black spots. The spotted garden eel has three larger distinctive black spots; the first identifies the gills opening and the position of the tiny pectoral fins, the second is located in the central part of the body and the third one surrounds the anus. Juveniles have a very thin black body. Distribution and habitat The spotted garden eel is widespread throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heteroconger Polyzona
The zebra garden eel (''Heteroconger polyzona''), also known as the banded garden eel, at www.fishbase.org. is a species of in the conger/garden eels family .''Heteroconger polyzona'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by |
Heteroconger Balteatus
''Heteroconger balteatus'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Heteroconger balteatus'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by and in 1999.Castle, P. H. J. and J. E. Randall, 1999 (Sept.) ef. 24042''Revision of Indo-Pacific garden eels (Congridae: Heterocongrinae), with descriptions of five new species.'' Indo-Pacific Fishes No. 30: 1-52, Pls. I-III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heteroconger Chapmani
''Heteroconger chapmani'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Heteroconger chapmani'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by in 1923.Herre, A. W. C. T., 1923 (8 Aug.) ef. 2117''A review of the eels of the Philippine Archipelago.'' Philippine Journal of Science v. 23 (no. 2): 123-236, Pls. 1-11. It is a marine, |
Garden Eel
The garden eels are the subfamily Heterocongrinae in the conger eel family Congridae. The majority of the 36 known species of garden eels live in the Indo-Pacific, but can be found in warm ocean water worldwide. These small eels Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order (biology), order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 Family (biology), families, 164 genus, genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the earl ... live in burrows on the sea floor and get their name from the behavior of poking their heads from their burrows to feed on plankton while most of their bodies remain hidden. Since they tend to live in groups, the many eel heads "growing" from the sea floor resemble the plants in a garden. They vary in color and size depending on the species. The largest species reaches about in length, but most species do not surpass . Garden eel colonies can grow as large as one acre in surface area and number up to severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heteroconger Congroides
''Heteroconger congroides'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Umberto D'Ancona in 1928, originally under the genus ''Leptocephalus''. It is a marine, deepwater-dwelling eel which is known from the Kamaran Islands in Yemen, in the Red Sea, in the western Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), .... It is known only from larvae, which are known from a depth of . References congroides Taxa named by Umberto D'Ancona Fish described in 1928 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Anguilliformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heteroconger Cobra
''Heteroconger cobra'', sometimes known as the cobra garden eel, is a species of garden eel of the family Congridae, found in the western Central Pacific from Honiara, the Solomon Islands to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. They occur in colonies, on sloping sand bottoms. They are known to be very frightened of humans. When they are spotted, these eels dart back into the holes in which they live. References * cobra COBRA or Cobra, often stylized as CoBrA, was a European avant-garde art group active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home countries' capital cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels ... Fish described in 1981 Taxa named by James Erwin Böhlke Taxa named by John Ernest Randall {{Anguilliformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congrid
The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden (thus the name). The family includes over 220 species in 32 genera. The European conger, ''Conger conger'', is the largest of the family and of the Anguilliformes order that includes it; it has been recorded at up to in length and weighing . Congrids are found in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas around the world. Clear distinguishing features among congrids are few; they all lack scales, and most possess pectoral fins. They feed on crustaceans and small fish. The earliest known fossils of this group are otoliths from the Campanian of the United States. A number of articulated specimens are known from the Paleogene of Europe. Genera The Congridae is divided into the following subfamilies and genera: * '' Alaconger'' Schwarzhans, 2010 (2 species; otolith- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ernest Randall
John Ernest "Jack" Randall (May 22, 1924 – April 26, 2020) was an American ichthyologist and a leading authority on coral reef fishes. Randall described over 800 species and authored 11 books and over 900 scientific papers and popular articles. He spent most of his career working in Hawaii. He died in April 2020 at the age of 95. Career John Ernest Randall was born in Los Angeles, California in May 1924, to John and Mildred (McKibben) Randall. In high school he acquired a love of marine fish after a visit to the tide pools of Palos Verdes and, after serving stateside in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during the post-D-Day years of WWII,John Randall bio, The Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences. (http://www.auas-nogi.org/bio_randall_john.html ) received his BA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1950. In 1955 he earned his Ph.D in ichthyology from the University of Hawaii. After spending two years as a research associate at the Bishop Museum in Honol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Roger Lubbock
Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name , itself the Old French variant of '' Hugo (name)">Hugo'', a short form of Continental Germanic Germanic name">given names beginning in the element "mind, spirit" (Old English ). The Germanic name is on record beginning in the 8th century, in variants ''Chugo, Hugo, Huc, Ucho, Ugu, Uogo, Ogo, Ougo,'' etc. The name's popularity in the Middle Ages ultimately derives from its use by Frankish nobility, beginning with Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris Hugh the Great (898–956). The Old French form was adopted into English from the Norman period (e.g. Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury d. 1098; Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, d. 1101). The spelling ''Hugh'' in English is from the Picard variant spelling '' Hughes'', where the orthography ''-gh-'' takes the role of ''-gu-'' in standard French, i.e. to express the phoneme /g/ as opposed to the affricate /ʒ/ taken by the grapheme ''g'' before front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |