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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 spot-face moray is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area, mainly on the coastal reefs of oceanic islands from Madagascar to Polynesia and from south Japan to New Caledonia. [3] [4] [5] It lives in protected areas on the outer slopes of coral reefs, top reefs, lagoons and harbors.
Trunk-eyed moray, blotch-necked moray eel, Gymnothorax margaritophorus (Bleeker, 1865) (Transkei to Bazaruto, Indo-Pacific) [3] Blackspot moray Gymnothorax melatremus (Schultz, 1953) (Sodwana Bay) [3] Guineafowl moray, turkey moray, Gymnothorax meleagris (Shaw and Nodder, 1795) (Algoa Bay to southern Mozambique; Indo-Pacific) [3]
Moray eels, particularly the giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) and yellow-edged moray (G. flavimarginatus), are known to accumulate high levels of ciguatoxins, unlike other reef fish; [32] [33] if consumed by humans, ciguatera fish poisoning may result. Ciguatera is characterised by neurological, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular problems ...
The blackcheek moray eel is a medium-sized fish that can reach a maximum length of 100 cm, [5] but usually morays observed are often smaller. [6] The background body color is brown speckled in a relatively high density with darker spots.
The goldentail moray is a medium-sized fish that can reach a maximum length of 70 cm, but the ones usually observed are rather average 40 cm in length. [3] [4] Its serpentine in shape body has a brown light or dark background color dotted with small yellow spots. These later are smaller on the head and larger at the tail.
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]
The starry moray is a large sized fish that can reach a maximum length of 180 cm, but the ones usually observed are rather smaller. [2] Its serpentine in shape body has a brown background color dotted with small white spots circled with darker brown than its background color.