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English: A free swimming Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris) with diver, Cozumel, Mexico. Italiano : Una murena verde ( Gymnothorax funebris ), Cozumel , Messico . Magyar : Szabadon úszó jávai szirti muréna (Gymnothorax javanicus) egy búvárral a mexikói Cozumel szigetnél
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.
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 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]
Subfamily Uropterygiinae Fowler, 1925 (tailfin moray eels) Subfamily Muraeninae Rafinesque, 1815 (morays) Infraorder Congrales. Family Colocongridae Smith, 1976 (shorttail eels) Family Derichthyidae Gill, 1884 (longneck eels or narrowneck eels) Family Ophichthidae Günther, 1870 (snake eels and worm eels) Subfamily Myrophinae Kaup, 1856 (worm eels)
The fangtooth moray is distinctive for its bright yellow head with elongated jaws, which are filled with a large number of long "glasslike" teeth. The body is moderate to dark brown in color with pale spots on the body and fins. The dorsal and anal fins are fused with the caudal and covered with thick skin.
Uropterygius xenodontus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. [2] It is commonly known as the black snake moray, [2] strange-toothed snake moray, or the wedge-tooth snake moray. [3]
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 .