Animalia > Chordata > Anguilliformes > Muraenidae > Gymnothorax > Gymnothorax margaritophorus

Gymnothorax margaritophorus (Blackpearl moray; Blotch-necked moray; Pearly moray; Pearly moray eel; Pearly reef-eel; Trunk-eyed moray; Turnkeyed moray)

Synonyms: Gymnothorax talofa; Lycodontis margaritophorus
Language: Afrikaans; Cebuano; Czech; Davawenyo; Fijian; French; Ilokano; Japanese; Mandarin Chinese; Marshallese; Samoan; Tagalog; Tahitian; Waray-waray

Wikipedia Abstract

The blotch-necked moray (Gymnothorax margaritophorus) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1864, and is also commonly known as the blackpearl moray, pearly moray, pearly reef-eel, or the trunk-eyed moray.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Predators

Laticauda saintgironsi[1]

External References

Citations

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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