Whitespotted Garden Eel, Gorgasia maculata Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1959
Other Names: Indian Spaghetti Eel
White Spotted Garden Eels, Gorgasia maculata, at Bua, Fiji. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
A pale greyish garden eel with many small close-packed brown spots and distinct white spots or blotches encircling the sensory pores on the head and lateral line pores on the body, and a large white blotch on the back of the head.
Colonies of Whitespotted Garden Eels live in coral-sand burrows with their heads poking out to feed on small planktonic organisms drifting by in the current.
Colonies of Whitespotted Garden Eels live in coral-sand burrows with their heads poking out to feed on small planktonic organisms drifting by in the current.
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Dianne J. Bray, Gorgasia maculata in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4930
Whitespotted Garden Eel, Gorgasia maculata Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1959
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Distribution |
Recorded in the Australian region from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Elsewhere, widespread in the tropical Indo-West Pacific, from the Maldives and the Comoro islands to the Solomon Islands, and north to the Philippines. |
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Author |
Dianne J. Bray |
Whitespotted Garden Eel, Gorgasia maculata Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1959
References
Acero, A., Murdy, E. & Smith, D. 2010. Gorgasia maculata. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.
Allen, G.R. & Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 1994. Fishes of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 412: 1-21.
Castle, P.H.J. 1997. Garden eel leptocephali: characters, generic identification, distribution, and relationships. Bulletin of Marine Science 60(1): 6-22.
Castle, P.H.J. & J.E. Randall. 1999. Revision of Indo-Pacific garden eels (Congridae: Heterocongrinae), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes (30): 52 pp.
Klausewitz, W. & I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt. 1959 Neue Röhrenaale von den Maldiven und Nikobaren (Pisces, Apodes, Heterocongridae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 40(3/4): 135-153.
