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Tricia's garden eel
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Congridae
Genus:	Heteroconger
Species:	H. tricia
Binomial name
Heteroconger tricia Castle & J. E. Randall, 1999

Tricia's garden eel (Heteroconger tricia) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Peter Henry John Castle and John Ernest Randall in 1999. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from Flores, Indonesia, in the eastern Indian Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 49.6 cm (19.5 in).

References

1. Tighe, K.; Smith, D.G.; McCosker, J. (2019). "Heteroconger tricia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T198987A2547209. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T198987A2547209.en. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
2. Common names for Heteroconger tricia at www.fishbase.org.
3. ^ Heteroconger tricia at www.fishbase.org.
4. Castle, P. H. J. and J. E. Randall, 1999 (Sept.) Revision of Indo-Pacific garden eels (Congridae: Heterocongrinae), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes No. 30: 1-52, Pls. I-III.

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