Species: Uropterygius macrocephalus, Largehead snake-moray, Largehead moray, Needle-tooth snake-moray

tail-tip yellow

Uropterygius macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1865)
Largehead snake-moray, Largehead moray, Needle-tooth snake-moray
Slender, moderately elongate, compressed at rear; tail slightly longer than head & trunk; snout short, ~ conical; eye moderate, over middle of jaws; front nostril tubular; posterior nostril not tubular, is a hole with a raised rim above front part of eye; gill opening a small slit at ~ mid side; pores above & below eye, along lower jaw, a single minute branchial pore in front of gill opening; teeth conical, slender, sharp, teeth of jaws biserial, those of roof of mouth uniserial, conical, smooth, sharp; dorsal & anal fins present as skin covered ridges near tip of tail.
Overall brown, usually with mottled pattern evident; tip of tail white to yellowish.
Size: reaches 47 cm.
Habitat: rocky and coral reefs.
Depth: 1-15 m.
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) and Japan to the eastern Pacific; the Gulf of California to northern Peru.

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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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- Corals
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- No Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans)
- All species
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- TEP non-endemic
- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Island (s)
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- All species
- Continent + Island (s)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 47
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 15