Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Heteroconger digueti

Cortez garden eel

WoRMS 271778ITIS 635966GBIF 2403147key worms:271778

2026-08-05: itis_id 635966 via WoRMS external link

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

Cortez garden eel63 cm

bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Heteroconger digueti — Photo · Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The pale green eel, also known as the pale garden eel or the Cortez garden eel, is an eel in the family Congridae. It was described by Jacques Pellegrin in 1923, originally under the genus Taenioconger.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2003, as larva.R

4
observations: 4
records: 4
sampling events: 1972–2003
years: 1
datasets: larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ichthyoplankton 4 obs · 4 events · 1972–2003 · larva
name used: Heteroconger digueti Cortez garden eel · code 366

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:271778%22

Heteroconger digueti

How big is itiEvery mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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

How big is it
i
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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/.