Species: Chlopsis bicolor, Bicolor Eel, Bicolor False Moray

center roof mouth - 2 rows teeth
Chlopsis bicolor Rafinesque, 1810
Bicolor Eel, Bicolor False Moray
Moderately elongate, slightly compressed; snout bluntly pointed; large eyes; front nostril tubular, points downward; rear nostril opens on outside of top lip under front edge of eye, but concealed by a flap; mouth moderately large, extends just behind eye; no flange on either lip; jaw teeth small, slender, conical, a round patch at front of top jaws; upper and lower jaw teeth in 2 rows, inner row larger; 2 series of teeth on center of roof of mouth that begin a little behind the patch at front of top jaws, those rows diverge in center and converge to rear; gill opening small, oval, lateral; dorsal origin over or slightly behind gill opening; pectoral fins absent; dorsal and anal fins well developed, continuous with tail fin, 1 lateral line pore on upper gill area, 5-6 along lower jaw.
Dark brown above and white below, with an abrupt separation of those colors in a line from base of front nostril, under eye to level of gill opening, along lower 1/3 of body then descends and present only as a narrow band along the tail and ends before the tail fin.
Reaches 23.5 cm.
Rock and rubble.
Depth range: 60-365 m.
Both sides of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; N Carolina to Brazil.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Transatlantic (East+West Atlantic)
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent only
- Extends North of GC
- GC non-endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Temperate (>35N)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 23.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 60
- Depth Range Max
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- 365