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Whitespotted garden eel
Gorgasia maculata
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Whitespotted garden eel
- Scientific
- Gorgasia maculata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Eels
- Maximum size
- Up to about 70 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 25 to 48 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2009
Description
A thin garden eel, up to about 70 cm, marked with white blotches on the head and along the side. It lives in colonies on clean, current-swept sandy slopes, each eel rising from its own burrow to pick plankton from the passing water.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Gorgasia-maculata.html
- inaturalist.org /observations/408008163
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.