Yellow garden eel

==Taxonomy==

==Taxonomy==

The yellow garden eel was first formally [[Species description|described]] in 1989 by the American [[ichthyologist]] [[David George Smith]] with its [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given as the Eastern Gulf of Mexico off [[Florida]] at 28°42'00.3"N, 84°20'00.7"W from a depth of {{cvt|33|m}}.<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Heteroconger|access-date=4 July 2025}}</ref> This species is classified in the genus ''[[Heteroconger]]'' in the [[subfamily]] [[Heterocongrinae]], the garden eels, of the family Congridae,<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Heterocongrinae|access-date=4 July 2025}}</ref> which also includes the conger eels, Congridae belongs to the [[suborder]] [[Congroidei]] in the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Anguilliformes]], the eels.<ref name = ECoF>{{cite web |author1=Richard van der Laan |author1-link=Richard van der Laan |author2=William N. Eschmeyer |author2-link=William N. Eschmeyer |author3=Ronald Fricke |author3-link=Ronald Fricke |title=Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification |url=https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification |work=[[Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes]] |publisher=[[California Academy of Sciences]] |access-date=4 July 2025}}</ref>

The yellow garden eel was first formally [[Species description|described]] in 1989 by the American [[ichthyologist]] [[David George Smith]] with its [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given as the Eastern Gulf of Mexico off [[Florida]] at 28°42'00.3"N, 84°20'00.7"W from a depth of {{cvt|33|m}}.<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Heteroconger|access-date=4 July 2025}}</ref> This species is classified in the genus ''[[Heteroconger]]'' in the [[subfamily]] [[Heterocongrinae]], the garden eels, of the family Congridae,<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Heterocongrinae|access-date=4 July 2025}}</ref> which also includes the conger eels, Congridae belongs to the [[suborder]] [[Congroidei]] in the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Anguilliformes]], the eels.<ref name = ECoF>{{cite web |author1=Richard van der Laan |author1-link=Richard van der Laan |author2=William N. Eschmeyer |author2-link=William N. Eschmeyer |author3=Ronald Fricke |author3-link=Ronald Fricke |title=Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification |url=https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification |work=[[Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes]] |publisher=[[California Academy of Sciences]] |access-date=4 July 2025}}</ref>

==Taxonomy==

The yellow garden eel is classified in the genus ''heteroconger'', this name was coined by [[Pieter Bleeker]] and it prefixes ''conger'' with ''hetero'', meaning different, because this genus was so different from the other conger genera Bleeker knew of. The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''luteolus'', means "yellowish", an allusion to the bright yellow colour on the back in life, paler yellow when preserved.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web |url=https://etyfish.org/congridae/ |title=Family CONGRIDAE Kaup 1856 (Conger Eels) |author=Christopher Scharpf |date=23 May 2025 |access-date=4 July 2025 |work=The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database |publisher=Christopher Scharpf}}</ref>

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