The Klausewitz's garden eelCommon names of Gorgasia klausewitzi at www.fishbase.org. (Gorgasia klausewitzi) is an eel in the family Congridae (the conger or garden eels).Gorgasia klausewitzi at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Jean-Claude Quéro and Luiz Vieria Caldas Saldanha in 1995.Quéro, J.-C. and L. Saldanha, 1995 (28 Mar.) [ref. 22017] Poissons anguilliformes de l'Ile de la Réunion (Océan Indien): description d'une nouvelle espèce. Cybium v. 19 (no. 1): 61-88. It is a marine, tropical species, which is known from the Indian Ocean, including waters off the Andaman Islands, Réunion, Mauritius, and the Comoros Islands. It dwells at a depth range of and forms large colonies consisting of hundreds of individual eels. Males can reach a maximum total length of .
Etymology The fish is named in honor of German ichthyologist Wolfgang Klausewitz who was an expert in garden eels, and who encouraged the authors to describe this species of eel as a new species.http://www.etyfish.org | title = The Etyfish Project
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