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Gymnothorax melatremus, the blackspot moray, dirty yellow moray or dwarf moray, is a moray eel from the Indo-Pacific East Africa to the Marquesas and Mangaréva, north to the Hawaiian Islands, south to the Australs islands. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade but still being rare to find.
The moray eel's elongation is due to an increase in the number of vertebrae, rather than a lengthening of each individual vertebra or a substantial decrease in body depth. [29] Vertebrae have been added asynchronously between the pre-tail ("precaudal") and tail ("caudal") regions, unlike other groups of eels such as Ophicthids and Congrids.
The background body color is brown speckled in a relatively high density with darker spots. This moray is easily identifiable by the large irregular black patch mark (hence the common name of blackcheek moray eel) starting from the eye and finishing in the corner of the mouth. Otherwise, its anal orifice and its gills aperture are black.
Gymnothorax fimbriatus is a medium-sized moray which can reach a maximum length of 80 centimetres (31 in). [2] Its serpentine in shape body has a white cream to light brown background color dotted with numerous black spots which latter vary in size and shape depending on the individual and maturity.
Subfamily Uropterygiinae Fowler, 1925 (tailfin moray eels) Subfamily Muraeninae Rafinesque, 1815 (morays) Infraorder Congrales. Family Colocongridae Smith, 1976 (shorttail eels) Family Derichthyidae Gill, 1884 (longneck eels or narrowneck eels) Family Ophichthidae Günther, 1870 (snake eels and worm eels) Subfamily Myrophinae Kaup, 1856 (worm eels)
Scuticaria okinawae is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [3] It is commonly known as the shorttailed snake moray , shorttail moray , Seale's moray eel , or the Bennett's moray . [ 4 ]
Uropterygius xenodontus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. [2] It is commonly known as the black snake moray, [2] strange-toothed snake moray, or the wedge-tooth snake moray. [3]
Gymnothorax rueppelliae is a pale grey to greyish-brown moray with 16–21 dark bars on the body, a bright yellow head and a dark spot at the corner of the mouth. [4] [5] [6] They differ from the Gymnothorax pikei, a close relative that lives Papua New Guinea. [7] They have fewer vomerine teeth. [7] They also reach a maximum length of 80 cm. [8]