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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.
Anarchias leucurus is a moray eel found in the Pacific Ocean. [1] It was first named by Snyder in 1904 as Uropterygius leucurus, [1] and is commonly known as Snyder's moray, the fine-spotted moray or the finespot moray. [2] It is thought to be the smallest species of moray, and may actually represent several different species or subspecies. [3]
Osteichthyes (/ ˌ ɒ s t iː ˈ ɪ k θ iː z / ost-ee-IK-theez; from Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon) 'bone' and ἰχθύς (ikhthús) 'fish'), also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.
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]
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 black body moray (Gymnothorax melanosomatus) is an eel in the family Muraenidae (moray eels). [1] It was described by Loh Kar-Hoe , Shao Kwang-Tsao , and Chen Hong-Ming in 2011. [ 2 ] It is a tropical , marine eel which is known from southeastern Taiwan , off Changbin, Taitung to Shihtiping, Hualien City and in the Pacific Ocean .