Species: Gymnothorax undulatus, Undulated moray
Gymnothorax undulatus (Lacepède, 1803)
Undulated moray
Head pointed; tail ~ ½ TL; teeth pointed, smooth; 3 rows of teeth at front of top jaws, with 3 long fangs there; 1 row of teeth at sides of top jaws, sometimes with a few inner canines in small fish; dorsal and anal fins covered with skin, but clearly evident; dorsal fin high, origin before gill opening.
Usually pale yellowish, but also brown, grey or whitish; head heavily mottled with dark spots, top often greenish yellow; body with large dark blotches separated by diffuse yellowish lines, forming "chain-link" pattern, this pattern more pronounced in juveniles than adults, which are irregularly mottled.
Size: attains at least 150 cm.
Habitat: rocky bottoms.
Depth: 1-60 m.
Widespread in the Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Americas; Costa Rica to Colombia, and the Revillagigedos Islands.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Corals
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Bony fishes
- Data
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans)
- TEP non-endemic
- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- All species
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- 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)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 150
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 60
