Spotted garden eel
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| phylum | Chordata | The spotted garden eel is a conger of the family Congridae, found in Indo-Pacific oceans at depths of between 7 and 45 m. Length is up to 40 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.
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| class | Actinopterygii | |
| order | Anguilliformes | |
| family | Congridae | |
| species | Heteroconger hassi |
