Redface moray

Monopenchelys acuta

Monopenchelys acuta is a Muränenart. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Monopenchelys. The fish is adapted to life in salt water.

Description

Monopenchelys acuta is a small moray eel, which is up to 20.9 cm long. She is slender, worm-like, and a little Kompress. The head is generally elongate and is wider than the body. The color is uniform light brown, head and tail are reddish, leading to the English vernacular names Redface eel ( U.S.) or Redface moray (UK and Bahamas) has performed and means something like " Rotgesichtsmuräne ".

Dissemination

Until now, the kind in the southeastern Atlantic off Ascension, sighted in the western Atlantic from the Bahamas to the Caribbean, the Pacific off Hawaii and the western Indian Ocean. She lives under rocks at a depth 13-54 m.

System

The eel was originally described by Albert Eide Parr Uropterygius acuta and later found in the genus Rabula. Eugenia B. Bohlke built in 1982 and John E. McCosker for the fish the new genus Monopenchelys because some characteristics from those of other Muränengattungen differ. For example, the dorsal fin begins only significantly behind the abdominal side situated anus. Monopenchelys belongs to the subfamily of Muraeninae, although the two recently discovered bones lacking in the chest area of many moray eels as with almost all representatives of the subfamily Uropterygiinae.