Animalia > Chordata > Anguilliformes > Muraenidae > Gymnothorax > Gymnothorax pictus

Gymnothorax pictus (Peppered moray; Speckled sidereal moray; Paintspotted moray; Painted reef eel; Painted moray; Ocellate moray; Moray eel; Giant moray; Black-speckled reef-eels; Bar-cheeked eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gymnothorax pictus, the painted moray, paintspotted moray or peppered moray, is a moray eel. The Chamorro name of the eel is títugi.
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Infraspecies

Gymnothorax pictus kowanensis
Gymnothorax pictus pictus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bunaken Manado Tua Marine National Park II 241403 Indonesia  
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Prey / Diet

Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Natal lightfoot crab)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Proctotrematoides gymnothoracis[2]
Tubulovesicula angusticauda[2]
Tubulovesicula spari[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diurnal, land-based predation on shore crabs by moray eels in the Chagos Archipelago, N. A. J. Graham, S. J. Purkis, A. Harris, Coral Reefs (2009) 28:397
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0