Species: Heteroconger canabus, Cape garden-eel, White ring garden-eel


Heteroconger canabus (Cowan & Rosenblatt, 1974)
Cape garden-eel, White ring garden-eel
Body very elongate, compressed; tail much longer than head and trunk; 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 and a pair of pores above the nostrils; rear nostril a hole before eye; pectoral fins present as tiny (much smaller than eye) skin flaps; tip of tail stiff, with obvious but small tail fin; dorsal and anal fins sometimes confluent with tail fin; a complete lateral line, numerous pores, 1 for each vertebra.
Dark brown, changing to pale brown at rear; a narrow white bar under front of dorsal fin; gill opening in a black spot; pectoral black; an oblique white bar on head and a whitish patch before pectoral fin; anterior pores of lateral line surrounded by halos of whit pigment.
Size: to 80 cm.
Profundidad: occurs on clean sandy slopes.
Depth: 3-20 m.
SW Gulf of California.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- No Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continental TEP endemic
- All species
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- Continent only
- Cortez province endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 80
- Depth Range Min
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- 3
- Depth Range Max
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- 20