Species: Muraena retifera, Reticulate Moray
both nostrils tubular, similar size
brown, body & fins - large pale rosettes + bright
gill opening in black patch
Muraena retifera Goode & Bean, 1882
Reticulate Moray
Body elongate; anus at or before mid-body; snout moderate, more or less conical; jaws not arched, mouth completely closable; both nostrils tubular, about same size, rear one over front edge of eye; jaw teeth smooth, large, slender, in single row on each jaw, 3 in center top front of mouth, usually 1 row on roof of mouth; dorsal origin on head, before gill opening; gill opening a small slit on mid- side.
Dark grey-brown, head, body and fins with a network pattern of pale spots or rosettes peppered with small white spots; gill opening in a black blotch.
Reaches 90 cm.
Mainly on mud, sand and rocky bottoms.
Depth range: 20-169 m.
N Carolina to Uruguay.
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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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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Mud
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef and soft bottom
- 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
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent only
- Extends N + S of GC
- Extends North of GC
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- 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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- 90
- Depth Range Min
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- 20
- Depth Range Max
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- 169
