Heteroconger longissimus Brown Garden Eel

Heteroconger longissimus is commonly referred to as Brown Garden Eel. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. A aquarium size of at least 500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

3020 

AphiaID:

126288 

Scientific:

Heteroconger longissimus 

German:

Brauner Röhrenaal 

English:

Brown Garden Eel 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Anguilliformes (Order) > Congridae (Family) > Heteroconger (Genus) > longissimus (Species) 

Initial determination:

Günther, 1870 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Barbados, Gambia, Guadeloupe, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, European Coasts, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Madeira, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, North Atlantic Ocean, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

10 - 60 Meter 

Habitats:

Reef-associated, Sandy sea floors, Seawater, Sea water, Soft grounds 

Size:

7.87" - 20.08" (20cm - 51cm) 

Temperature:

69.8 °F - 81.86 °F (21°C - 27.7°C) 

Food:

Detritus, Living Food, Plankton, Zooplankton 

Tank:

109.99 gal (~ 500L)  

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Heteroconger balteatus
• 
  Heteroconger camelopardalis
  Röhrenaal
• Heteroconger canabus
• Heteroconger chapmani
• Heteroconger cobra
• Heteroconger congroides
• 
  Heteroconger digueti
  Tiefsee Röhrenaal
• 
  Heteroconger enigmaticus
  Röhenaal
• 
  Heteroconger hassi
  Ohrfleck-Röhrenaal
• 
  Heteroconger klausewitzi
  Galapagos Röhrenaal
• Heteroconger lentiginosus
• 
  Heteroconger longissimus
  Brauner Röhrenaal
• 
  Heteroconger luteolus
  Röhrenaal
• 
  Heteroconger mercyae
  Mercy's Röhrenaal
• Heteroconger obscurus
• Heteroconger pellegrini
• 
  Heteroconger perissodon
  Schwarzer Röhrenaal
• 
  Heteroconger polyzona
  Gestreifter Röhrenaal
• 
  Heteroconger taylori
  Taylors Röhrenaal
• Heteroconger tomberua
• Heteroconger tricia
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Heteroconger fugax
  Röhenaal
• 
  Heteroconger guttatus
  Röhrenaal

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2010-02-09 17:18:24 

Last edit:

2025-07-14 10:48:52 

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