Gorgasia cotroneii is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Umberto D'Ancona in 1928, originally under the genus Leptocephalus. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Red Sea, in the western Indian Ocean.
The fish is named in honor of Italian zoologist Giulio Cotronei (1885âÂÂ1962), who was Director of the Institute of Comparative Anatomy, R. Universitàdi Roma, where describer D'Ancona was based.