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Splendid garden eel
Gorgasia preclara
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Splendid garden eel
- Scientific
- Gorgasia preclara
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Eels
- Maximum size
- Up to about 40 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 18 to 75 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2016
Description
A slender garden eel banded in yellow to orange and white, reaching about 40 cm. It lives in a burrow on sandy slopes, usually below 18 m, and leans into the current to snatch plankton.
In the Maldives
Found in garden-eel colonies on sandy channel slopes in the Maldives, often alongside the spotted garden eel.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Gorgasia-preclara.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Gorgasia_preclara.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.