Animalia > Chordata > Anguilliformes > Muraenidae > Strophidon > Strophidon sathete

Strophidon sathete (Giant slender moray; Tide guage eel; Slender giant moray; Marbled moray; Long-tailed eel; Longtail moray; Giant estuarine moray; Gangetic moray)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The slender giant moray or gangetic moray, Strophidon sathete, is the longest member of the family of moray eels. Specimens as large as 4 m have been recorded. This species is characterized by an elongated body, as well as brownish-grey dorsal coloration which pales towards the venter.
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Migration [1]  Amphidromous

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
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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