Congridae

peppered garden eel

Gorgasia punctata

Fifty Centimeters Eel of the Pacific Ocean

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• North America
• Anguilliform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

The dotted garden eel (Gorgasia punctata), also known as the peppered garden eel, is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Seth Eugene Meek and Samuel Frederick Hildebrand in 1923. It is a nonmigratory tropical, marine eel which is known from the eastern central Pacific Ocean, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.