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Gymnothorax eurostus (White-speckled moray; Stout moray; Spotted moray; Salt and pepper moray; Moray eel; Indo-Pacific stout moray; Abbott's moray eel; Abbott's moray; Abbott's eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Abbott's moray eel, also known as the stout moray (Gymnothorax eurostus) is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the Indo-Pacific, antitropical in distribution. It is found in the eastern Pacific from Costa Rica to Easter Island, at depths to 40 m. Its length is up to 60 cm. Abbott's moray eel is a shallow-water, inshore reef species, though not often seen. They are voracious nocturnal carnivores feeding mostly on reef fishes.
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Predators

Laticauda saintgironsi[1]

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1Foraging ecology of sea kraits Laticauda spp. in the Neo-Caledonian Lagoon, François Brischoux, Xavier Bonnet, Richard Shine, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 350: 145–151, 2007
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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