Species: Channomuraena vittata, Broadbanded moray
Channomuraena vittata (Richardson, 1845)
Broadbanded moray
Body robust, muscular and cylindrical, tapering to rear; tail tip rounded; head and body 2/3 of TL; snout short; eye small, over front 1/3 of jaws; front nostril a short tube, rear nostril a hole with a raised rim before and above eye; jaws extremely long, lower jaw distinctly projecting; teeth small, pointed, in bands, top jaw with a single band, between top jaws with an elongate teardrop-shaped band that extends back along roof of mouth; gill opening a small slit at mid side; lateral line pores absent except for 2 pores above and before gill opening, 7 along lower jaw, last before end of mouth; dorsal and anal fins only at tail tip.
Brown, with 13-16 broad dark bands circling body.
Reaches 150 cm.
Lives on reefs, mainly on islands.
Depth range: 0-100 m.
Both sides of the Atlantic and scattered records in the Indo-central Pacific. Bermuda to Colombia.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- GC non-endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 150
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
