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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Heteroconger

WoRMS 125626ITIS 161395key worms:125626
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161395 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Spotted garden eel at Nausicaä Centre National de la Mer, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Photo · Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Heteroconger is a genus of marine congrid eels. These small, slender garden eels live in groups where each individual has its own burrow.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2003.R

4
observations
4
records
1972–2003
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125626")