Animalia > Chordata > Anguilliformes > Muraenidae > Gymnothorax > Gymnothorax vicinus

Gymnothorax vicinus (Purple-mouthed moray eel; Purplemouth moray; Dusky-mouthed moray eel; Dusky-mouthed moray; Deepwater conger; Congo; Brown moray; Brown conger)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The purplemouth moray Gymnothorax vicinus, is a moray eel found in the Atlantic Ocean. It was first named by Francis de Laporte de Castelnau in 1855.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
Seaflower Marine Protected Area 15125514 Colombia      

Prey / Diet

Predators

Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark)[1]
Epinephelus guttatus (Rockhind)[1]
Epinephelus striatus (Striped weakfish)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Brachyphallus parvus[2]
Lecithochirium grandiporum[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 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