Splendid Garden Eel, Gorgasia preclara Böhlke & Randall 1981
Other Names: Orange-barred Garden Eel
A Splendid Garden Eel, Gorgasia preclara, at Vilamendhoo, Maldives, 2015. Source: Jim Greenfield / FishBase. License: All rights reserved
Summary:
A garden eel with yellow to orange bands along the body, small pectoral fins and the anterior nostrils positioned on the snout tip between the restricted labial flanges.
Video of Splendid Gardens Eels and Spotted Garden Eels in the Enoshima Aquarium, Japan.
Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2017, Gorgasia preclara in Fishes of Australia, accessed 26 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1686
Splendid Garden Eel, Gorgasia preclara Böhlke & Randall 1981
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Distribution |
Occurs on reefs in the Coral Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific, from the Maldives to Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines and north to the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. Individuals or small aggregations of Splendid Garden Eels live in burrows, protruding to feed on plankton drifting in the current. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
Splendid Garden Eel, Gorgasia preclara Böhlke & Randall 1981
References
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.
Castle, P.H.J. & Randall, J.E. 1999. Revision of Indo-Pacific garden eels (Congridae: Heterocongrinae), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes (30): 52 pp.
Kuiter, R.H. & Tonozuka, T. 2001. Indonesian Reef Fishes. Part 1. Eels- Snappers, Muraenidae - Lutjanidae. Australia : Zoonetics pp. 1-302.
Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp.
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.
