Splendid garden eel
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The splendid garden eel burrows into the sand starting with its tail fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Splendid garden eel
- Scientific name
- Gorgasia preclara
- Japanese name
- ニシキアナゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Congridae
- Genus
- Gorgasia
A relative of conger eels that lives on sandy seafloors with good water flow, around places such as Amami Ōshima and the Ryukyu Islands.
It usually stays hidden in its burrow, sticking out just the upper part of its body to eat plankton and other food carried by the current.
Pale orange and white bands make a mottled pattern on its body. Its Japanese name comes from nishiki, a kind of brocade fabric.
Basic data
- Size
- Total length: about 38 cm
- Diet
- Plankton and other food
- Range
- Amami Oshima, Ryukyu Islands, Philippine Islands, Maldives, and elsewhere
Where the Splendid garden eel has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ニシキアナゴ
- 简体中文
- 横带园鳗
- 繁體中文
- 橫帶園鰻
- Español
- Anguila de Jardín Esplendida
- Deutsch
- Prachtröhrenaal
- Português (Brasil)
- Enguia-de-jardim-listrada
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ニシキアナゴChecked: 2026-11-03
- 鳥羽水族館 — ニシキアナゴChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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