Black Garden Eel (Heteroconger perissodon)

Also known as Black Garden Eel

Description

Also known as Many-toothed Garden Eel.

Found singly or in small colonies, poking out from silty mud, sand, and seagrass bottoms, of sheltered bays, lagoons, and coastal slopes.
They feed on zooplankton.
Length - 53cm
Depth - 1-35m
Widespread Indo-West Pacific

Garden Eels rise up in the sand halfway their body length waving in the sand feeding on plankton.
When approached they slide back into their holes. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Heteroconger-perissodon.html

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