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Yellow Garden Eel

Heteroconger luteolus

Classification

Family
Congridae

The yellow garden eel (Heteroconger luteolus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Congridae, encompassing the conger and garden eels. This species is found in the Western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Taxonomy The yellow garden eel was first formally described in 1989 by the American ichthyologist David George Smith with its type locality given as the Eastern Gulf of Mexico off Florida at 28°42'00.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 38