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White-spotted Garden Eel

Gorgasia maculata

Also known as: Indian Spaghetti Eel, Spaghetti Eel, Spaghetti Garden Eel

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2010
Adult
@fishx6 · Makunudhoo Island Resort, Maldives · August 20061 / 1
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Overview

Found in large colonies, half buried in the sand, over exposed clean sandy slopes, usually waving their heads around, pointing into the current feeding, quickly disappearing when alarmed!

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.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Body shape
spaghetti

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-West Pacific
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Found in large colonies, half buried in the sand, over exposed clean sandy slopes, usually waving their heads around, pointing into the current feeding, quickly disappearing when alarmed!

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Adult photos 1

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderAnguilliformes
    5. familyCongridae
    6. genusGorgasia
    7. speciesGorgasia maculata Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959

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    More in the family

    Conger-Garden Eels (Congridae)