Galapagos garden eel Galapagos garden eel The Galapagos garden eel ("Heteroconger klausewitzi") is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Friedmann Köster in 1983, originally under the genus "Taenioconger". It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central and southeastern Pacific Ocean, including Colombia, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, and Panama. It dwells at a depth of , and lives in large, nonmigratory colonies in clean, sandy substrates. Males can reach a maximum total length of . The diet of the Galapagos garden eel consists of zooplankton. Due to
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