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The common name "green moray" is also sometimes used to refer to the yellow moray, G. prasinus. Its green colour comes from a protective layer of mucus secreted by its specialized goblet cells much like other species of moray. Underneath this mucus layer, the green moray eel is a darker color as can be seen in preserved specimens. [3]
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. [30]
The panamic green moray eel (Gymnothorax castaneus) is a large moray eel in the Pacific. [2] Common names also include chestnut moray eel. The panamic green moray is found in the Pacific from the Gulf of California to Ecuador, including the Galapagos Islands. [3] It grows to about 1.5 m in length, [3] and is brown to brownish green.
The large lake of Almere, which existed in the early Medieval Netherlands, got its name from the eels which lived in its water (the Dutch word for eel is aal or ael, so: "ael mere" = "eel lake"). The name is preserved in the new city of Almere in Flevoland, given in 1984 in memory of this body of water on whose site the town is located.
Gymnothorax funebris Ranzani, 1839 (Green moray) Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus (L. P. Schultz, 1953) (Brown-spotted moray) Gymnothorax gracilicauda O. P. Jenkins, 1903 (Slender-tail moray) Gymnothorax griseus (Lacépède, 1803) (Geometric moray) Gymnothorax hansi Heemstra, 2004; Gymnothorax hepaticus (Rüppell, 1830) (Liver-colored moray)
As the name suggests, the giant moray is a large eel, reaching up to a little over 3m (10 feet) in length and 30 kg (66 lb) in weight. [3] Its elongated body is brownish in color. While juveniles are tan in color with large black spots, adults have black specks that grade into leopard-like spots behind the head.
The geometric moray (Gymnothorax griseus) [2] [3] is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae [4] [5] [6] found throughout the western Indian Ocean at depths to 40 m. Its length is up to 65 cm. [7] It is parasitized by Ichthyoxenus puhi, a species of isopod.
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.