Species: Heteroconger pellegrini, Mimic garden-eel, Speckled garden-eel


front nostrils in lips
Heteroconger pellegrini Castle, 1999
Speckled garden-eel, Mimic 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; dorsal origin behind tip of pectoral, rays before anus 143-198, total 532-675; anal rays 350-478; tail rays 7-8; 177-192 vertebrae; lateral line pores before anus 50-54, total 152-166, continue till near tail tip.
Body and fins light cream.densely covered with minute dark dots; dots smaller and less regularly arranged than in Gorgasia punctata.
Size: to 63 cm.
Habitat: clean sand bottoms.
Depth: 5-30 m.
The tip of Baja California to Panama.

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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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- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- Pelagic fish eggs
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- TEP endemic
- Continent only
- Continent
- Continental TEP endemic
- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 63
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 30