Tricia's garden eel

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Tricia's garden eel
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Congridae
Genus: Heteroconger
Species:
H. tricia
Binomial name
Heteroconger tricia
Castle & J. E. Randall, 1999

Tricia's garden eel [2] (Heteroconger tricia) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). [3] It was described by Peter Henry John Castle and John Ernest Randall in 1999. [4] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from Flores, Indonesia, in the eastern Indian Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 49.6 cm (19.5 in). [3]

References

  1. ↑ Tighe, K.; Smith, D.G.; McCosker, J. (2019). "Heteroconger tricia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 e.T198987A2547209. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T198987A2547209.en . Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Common names for Heteroconger tricia at www.fishbase.org.
  3. 1 2 Heteroconger tricia at www.fishbase.org.
  4. ↑ Castle, P. H. J. and J. E. Randall, 1999 (Sept.) [ref. 24042] Revision of Indo-Pacific garden eels (Congridae: Heterocongrinae), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes No. 30: 1-52, Pls. I-III.


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