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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 ]
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]
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 ...
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]
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.
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 .
The brown-spotted moray (Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [2] It was first named by Schultz in 1953 [ 2 ] and is also commonly known as the freckled moray .