Black spotted garden eel

Heteroconger hassi

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth9–27 m
Water temperature25–29 °C
Best monthsAugust
How commonOccasional

About this species

The spotted garden eel is a species of heteroconger belonging to the family Congridae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific. It is also known as Hass's garden eel.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Spotted garden eel”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

Loading the map

Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 0 records
February: 4 records
March: 2 records
April: 1 records
May: 8 records
June: 5 records
July: 3 records
August: 14 records
September: 4 records
October: 3 records
November: 7 records
December: 0 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 9–27 m · Deepest record: 57.5 m

0–10 m: 8 records
10–20 m: 27 records
20–30 m: 10 records
30–40 m: 1 records
40–50 m: 0 records
50–60 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 25–29 °C

24–26 °C: 8 records
26–28 °C: 15 records
28–30 °C: 40 records

Names and classification

English: Black spotted garden eel, Garden Eel, Spotted Garden-eel, Spotted Garden Eel

Names in 6 more languages

German: Ohrfleck-Röhrenaal
Spanish: Anguila de Jardín de Hass
French: Congre paysagé, Hétérocongre tacheté
Japanese: Chin-anago, チンアナゴ
Thai: ปลาไหลสวนจุดดำ
Simplified Chinese: 哈氏異糯鰻, 哈氏異糯鰻（花園鰻）, 園鰻, 擬異康吉鰻, 沙鰻, 海鰻, 穴子鰻, 糯米鰻, 臭腥鰻, 花園鰻

Other scientific names: Leptocephalus maculatus, Taenioconger haasi, Taenioconger hassi, Xarifania hassi

Similar species

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
255 open-data records from 1959 to 2013.

Log what you see on your next dive

The free DiveHive diver app keeps your logbook with every sighting and shows what lives at the site you dive next.

Join the waitlist