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Other common names include conger, spotted eel, red moray, speckled moray, white cong, white jawed moray, white-chinned moray and white-jawed moray eel. Spotted eels have a long snake-like body, white or pale yellow in general with small overlapping reddish brown to dark-brown spots. They are commonly 60 cm (24 in) in length and can grow up to ...
The spotted moray eel (Gymnothorax isingteena) is a species of moray eel found in coral reefs of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [2] It was first named by John Richardson in 1845. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Gymnothorax equatorialis is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Gulf of California to Peru. [2] It was first named by Hildebrand in 1946, [ 2 ] and is commonly known as the spotted-tail moray or the spottail moray .
Gymnothorax polyuranodon, commonly known as the freshwater moray, is a species of moray eel that is native to the Indo-Pacific region, including Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the northern coastline of Australia, and various islands in the western Pacific. Other common names include the many-toothed moray, spotted ...
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 .
Gymnothorax ocellatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. [2] It was first named by Louis Agassiz in 1831, [2] and is also commonly known as the blackedge moray, Caribbean ocellated moray, conger, ocellated moray, spotted moray, sawtooth moray, white-spotted moray, or yellow cong. [3]
Scuticaria tigrina is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [3] It is commonly known as the tiger reef-eel, tiger snake moray, tiger moray eel, tiger moray, tiger eel, spotted eel, or the spotted snake moray. [3]
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).