Heteroconger tomberua

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Tighe, K. |author2=Smith, D.G. |author3=McCosker, J. |date=2019 |title=Heteroconger tomberua |volume=2019 |page=e.T199062A2554910 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T199062A2554910.en |access-date=29 December 2021}}

| genus = Heteroconger

| species = tomberua

| authority = Castle & Randall, 1999

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Heteroconger tomberua is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).[http://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Heteroconger-tomberua.html Heteroconger tomberua] at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Peter Henry John Castle and John Ernest Randall in 1995.Castle, P. H. J. and J. E. Randall, 1999 (Sept.) [ref. 24042] Revision of Indo-Pacific garden eels (Congridae: Heterocongrinae), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes No. 30: 1-52, Pls. I-III. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the western central Pacific Ocean, including Fiji and possibly (based on leptocephali) New Caledonia, the Philippines, the Nicobar Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. It is known to dwell at a depth of {{convert|36|m|ft|abbr=on}}. Males can reach a maximum total length of {{convert|42.8|cm|in ft|abbr=on}}.