Species: Muraena robusta, Robust moray
both nostrils tubular
head golden brown
inside mouth orange
head golden brown
inside mouth orange
body & fins - orange-grey + large dark to orange s
gill opening in black blotch
Muraena robusta Osório, 1911
Robust moray
Body robust; head large and thick; snout short, square; head and trunk 41-50% of TL; jaws not arched, mouth completely closable; both nostrils tubular, rear one over front edge of eye; jaw teeth slender, conical, in single row on each jaw; dorsal origin on head, before gill opening; gill opening a small slit on mid- side.
Brown with an orange tint; inside mouth orange; body and fins with many large dark blotches (orange brown at front, blackish at rear) separated by a network of pale lines; gill opening in a large black blotch.
Reaches 186 cm.
Reefs.
Depth range: 0-100 m, adults usually below 30 m.
Primarily an E Atlantic species; N Carolina to the S Caribbean.
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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 (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Transatlantic (East+West Atlantic)
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends North of GC
- All species..
- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- Residency
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- Vagrant
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Temperate (>35N)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 186
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
