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Gymnothorax ocellatus (Blackedge moray; Caribbean Ocellated Moray; Conger; Moray; Moray eel; Ocellated moray; Sawtooth moray; Spotted moray; White spotted moray; Yellow cong)

Synonyms: Gymnothorax jordani; Lycodontis jordani; Muraena ocellata; Muraena tricolor; Murenophis variegata
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Wikipedia Abstract

Gymnothorax ocellatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. It was first named by Louis Agassiz in 1831, and is also commonly known as the blackedge moray, Caribbean ocellated moray, conger, ocellated moray, spotted moray, sawtooth moray, white-spotted moray, or yellow cong.
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Infraspecies

Gymnothorax ocellatus var. januarius
Gymnothorax ocellatus var. ocellatus
Gymnothorax ocellatus var. saxicola

Prey / Diet

Engraulis anchoita (Anchoita)[1]
Hepatus pudibundus (flecked box crab)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Lutjanus campechanus (Red snapper)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Machadosentis travassosi[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1ACTIVITY, HABITAT UTILIZATION, FEEDING BEHAVIOUR, AND DIET OF THE SAND MORAY Gymnothorax ocellatus (ANGUILLIFORMES, MURAENIDAE) IN THE SOUTH WESTERN ATLANTIC, Flávia Borges Santos and Ricardo M. C. Castro, Biota Neotropica, v3, n1 (2003)
♦ 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