Species: Uropterygius polystictus, Many-spotted snake-moray, Peppered snake-moray


Uropterygius polystictus Myers & Wade, 1941
Peppered snake-moray, Many-spotted snake-moray
Body round at front, becoming compressed behind; head & body slightly longer than tail; eye nearer snout than angle of jaws; teeth slender, conical, smooth; top and bottom jaw teeth in 2 series, inner series on each side about 8-9 large, depressible canines, with 2 small triangular patches of teeth at front of top jaw; 1 row of 5-6 teeth on roof of mouth; both nostrils tubular, similar; rear nostril slightly in front of middle of eye, not associated with a pore; gill opening a small, ~ eye-size hole, at midside; 1 lateral line pore above gill opening; dorsal and anal fins present as skin covered crests at rear of body near tail; tail blunt, with small, skin covered tail fin.
Light grey to pale orange, peppered with dark spots, particularly on upper half of body and around head; both pairs of nostrils without pigment; pores on both jaws with pigmentless rings; membrane around tail with pale border.
Size: 72 cm.
Habitat: mixtures of sand, rock and coral substrata, including tidepools.
Depth: 1-35 m.
SW Gulf of California and the Galapagos.

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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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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Corals
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- 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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- 72
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 35