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Klausewitz's garden eel

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Klausewitz's garden eel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Congridae
Genus: Gorgasia
Species: G. klausewitzi
Binomial name
Gorgasia klausewitzi
Quéro & Saldanha, 1995

The Klausewitz's garden eel (Gorgasia klausewitzi) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Jean-Claude Quéro and Luiz Vieria Caldas Saldanha in 1995. It is a marine, tropical eel, which is known from the Indian Ocean, including the Andaman Islands, Réunion, Mauritius, and the Comoros Islands. It dwells at a depth range of 170 to 225 metres (558 to 738 ft), and forms large colonies consisting of hundreds of individual eels. Males can reach a maximum total length of 75.1 centimetres (29.6 in).

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of German ichthyologist Wolfgang Klausewitz garden eel expert, who encouraged the authors to describe this species of eel.

References

  1. Common names of Gorgasia klausewitzi at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ^ Gorgasia klausewitzi at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Quéro, J.-C. and L. Saldanha, 1995 (28 Mar.) Poissons anguilliformes de l'Ile de la Réunion (Océan Indien): description d'une nouvelle espèce. Cybium v. 19 (no. 1): 61-88.
  4. http://www.etyfish.org | title = The Etyfish Project
Taxon identifiers
Gorgasia klausewitzi


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