The whitespotted garden eel (Gorgasia maculata), also known as the Indian spaghetti eel,[1] is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).[2] It was described by Wolfgang Klausewitz and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt in 1959.[3] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Indo-Western Pacific, including Maldives, the Solomon Islands, the Philippines, the Cocos Islands, Comoros, India, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.[4] It dwells at a depth range of 25mto48mm (82feetto157feetm), and lives in non-migratory colonies that form burrows on sandy slopes, usually near coral reefs. Males can reach a maximum total length of 70cm (30inches).[2]
Due to its wide range and lack of known major threats, the IUCN redlist lists the whitespotted garden eel as Least Concern.[4]