Garden Eels
A garden eel is a type of eel which lives at the bottom of the ocean floor usually near coral reefs.
Garden eels. There are two species of garden eel heteroconger cobra found most often around the galapagos islands and the more common spotted garden eel heteroconger hassi. The spotted garden eel is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 40 centimetres 16 in. Garden eels are part of the subfamily heterochongrinae which includes about 35 species.
They re found in warm waters all over the world although the majority of species are found in the indo pacific region. These small eels live in burrows on the sea floor and get their name from their practice of poking their heads from their burrows while most of. These eels burrow into the ground tail first and rarely leave their burrows completely.
Its body is anguiform eel like. The gardens eel are the subfamily heterochongrinae in the conger eel family congridae the majority of garden eels live in the indo pacific but species are also found in warmer parts of the atlantic ocean including the caribbean and east pacific. Other eels swim freely to capture their prey.