Animalia > Chordata > Anguilliformes > Muraenidae > Gymnothorax > Gymnothorax moringa

Gymnothorax moringa (White-jawed moray eel; White-chinned moray; White jawed moray; White cong; Spotted moray; Speckled moray; Red moray; Hamlet; Eel; Congo; Conger eel; Conger; Common spotted moray; Common conger; Moray eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The spotted moray (Gymnothorax moringa) is a medium to large moray eel. 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 overall color with small overlapping reddish brown to dark-brown spots. They are commonly 60 cm (24 in) in length and can grow to 2 m (6.6 ft), and weigh 2.51 kg (5.5 lb). They inhabit the Western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina and Bermuda to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. They are also found around the Mid- and Eastern Atlantic islands as far south as St Helena. They are typically found anywhere from the surface to a depth of 200 m (660 ft).
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Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Haemulon aurolineatum (Seize)[1]
Lutjanus griseus (Snapper)[1]
Stegastes fuscus (dusky damselfish)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Consumers

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1Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
3Gibson, 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