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
Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall went to court, challenging anyone to show his daughter was not white. He and his wife eventually changed their names and moved to other neighborhoods in order to pass into the white community. Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall, known as O.S.B. Wall (1825-1891), was an American attorney and politician who was born into slavery but, during the American Civil War, became the first black man to be commissioned as captain in the Regular U.S. Army. One of several mixed-race children of a white planter, Wall and others were freed by their father, given a bequest and guardian,