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English: Moray eels have two sets of jaws: 1) the oral jaws that capture prey; and 2) the pharyngeal jaws (similar to the jaws of the monster in the movie Alien) that advance into the mouth and move prey from the oral jaws to the oesophagus for swallowing.
Moray eel. Moray eels, or Muraenidae (/ ˈ m ɒr eɪ, m ə ˈ r eɪ /), are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera which are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, and a few are found in fresh water.
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A leptocephalus (meaning "slim head" [1]) is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members of the superorder Elopomorpha. This is one of the most diverse groups of teleosts, containing 801 species in 4 orders, 24 families, and 156 genera. This group is thought to have arisen in the Cretaceous period over 140 million ...
Muraena argus, commonly known as the white-spotted moray, or the Argus moray, [3] is a moray eel found in coral reefs from Mexico to Peru and around the Galápagos Islands. [4] It was described by Franz Steindachner in 1870, originally under the genus Gymnothorax. [4] It dwells at a depth range of 18 to 60 metres (59 to 197 ft).
Family Muraenidae Rafinesque, 1815 (moray eels) 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 ...
The California moray (Gymnothorax mordax) is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the eastern Pacific from just north of Santa Barbara to Santa Maria Bay in Baja California. [2] They are the only species of moray eel found off California, and one of the few examples of a subtropical moray.
Enchelycore schismatorhynchus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [2] It was first named by Bleeker in 1853, [ 2 ] and is commonly known as the white-margined moray , brown moray eel , or the funnel-nostril moray .