Spotted Garden Eel

This Spotted Garden eel also known as Hasss Garden Eel is a small fish that reaches about 16 inches and has small black spots in the white-colored body.

Spotted garden eel. When feeding the spotted garden eel rises out of its burrow exposing up to two-thirds of its body. This eel has a large upturned mouth and large yellow eyes with excellent eyesight used for hunting and protection. The head appears shortened because the large mouth is close to the also large eyes.

Spotted garden eels on the ocean floor of Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park in MexicoBahía Pulmo is home to the oldest of only three. Spotted garden eel grabs a krill at Kyoto Aquarium on November 7 2017 in Kyoto Japan. They are pelagic spawners which means the female releases fertilized eggs into the water.

Spotted garden eels are white eels with black spots and a unique anguilliform. Found in large colonies half buried over sand and seagrass beds usually waving their heads around pointing into the current feeding quickly disappearing when alarmed over sandy slopes. Spotted Garden Eel.

Colonies are usually found on sandy flats and slopes bordering coral reefs sometimes living. Found throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific spotted garden eels have been recorded off the coast of Australia in the Timor Sea the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef. The heterocongrine subfamily of eels all use their tails to dig burrows in the sand.

There are three prominent black patches located on the body. They can eat up to 500 tiny animals just for one meal. Its body is anguiform eel-like.

Also known as Black-spotted Garden Eel Hasss Garden Eel. They are long and thin and have circular cross-sections. The Spotted Garden Eel チンアナゴ Chinanago is a type of sea creature introduced in Animal Crossing.