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Heteroconger klausewitzi
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Heteroconger klausewitzi

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Heteroconger pellegrini
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Heteroconger pellegrini
Heteroconger klausewitzi
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Heteroconger klausewitzi

Heteroconger pellegrini
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Heteroconger pellegrini
Heteroconger canabus
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Heteroconger canabus

Heteroconger digueti
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Heteroconger digueti
Heteroconger digueti
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Heteroconger digueti

Heteroconger
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Heteroconger
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Overview
Main identification features
  • mouth ends under center eye
  • dorsal and anal finsconfluent with c
  • upper lips joined; front nostrils in lips
  • pectorals minute ( less than eye)
HETEROCONGER

GARDEN EELS

Body very elongate, compressed; tail much longer than head and trunk; tip of tail stiff, with obvious but small tail fin; dorsal and anal fins sometimes confluent with tail fin; head short, snout very short; mouth very short (not reaching rear of eye), oblique, lower jaw only a little projecting; teeth in broad bands an jaw and roof of mouth; top lip flanges continuous across front of snout and enclosing front (tubular) nostrils; rear nostril a hole before eye; numerous on pore an lateral line, 1 for each vertebra; pectoral fins absent or present as tiny (much smaller than eye) skin flaps.

A circumtropical genus present in all three oceans; with about 15 recognized species, 4 of which are regional endemics in the tropical eastern Pacific.


References
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