Species: Gymnothorax eurygnathos, Wide-mouth moray
head large, wide
jaws short, wide
jaws short, wide
dark + pale lichen-like blotches
tail tip yellow
Gymnothorax eurygnathos Bohlke, 2001
Wide-mouth moray
Body stout, cylindrical; head large and broad (~ 14% of TL); snout short; jaws short and wide; teeth short, stout, triangular, serrated on both sides, partly in two rows on jaws; thorax swollen; origin of dorsal fin about over large gill opening; tail short (~ 42 % of TL).
Dark brown with pale brown to yellowish lichen-like blotches dispersed over body and dorsal and anal fins, smaller blotches densely covering head; tip of tail yellowish.
Reaches: 47 cm.
Habitat: soft bottoms.
Depth: 30-400 m.
The Gulf of California to El Salvador.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- All species
- Continent only
- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 47
- Depth Range Min
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- 30
- Depth Range Max
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- 400
