Spotted moray

Spotted Moray Eel ( Gymnothorax moringa )

The Spotted Moray Eel ( Gymnothorax moringa ) occurs in tropical and subtropical western Atlantic from North Carolina on the Bermudas to the coast of southern Brazil before. In addition, she has lived in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, in the Cape Verde Islands and in the central South Atlantic Ocean to the islands of St. Helena and Ascension. It inhabits mainly coral and rocky reefs, and seagrass beds at depths up to 30 meters.

Features

The Spotted Moray Eel is according to various types of information from one to two feet long, the animals at Ascension to even reach a length of three meters. Your body is covered lean and off-white to light beige color and numerous partially overlapping, brown to purple spots. The mouth interior is violet, white or yellow eyes. Gender differences are not known.

Way of life

Spotted morays are solitary and spend the day mostly hidden in caves and crevices. Occasionally, especially in the afternoon, however, they swim around freely and hunt together with other predators. They are both night - and day-active and feed on fish, especially of young snappers and parrot fish, crabs and shrimp. It is itself inter alia on the Nassau grouper ( Epinephelus striatus), and the snapper Lutjanus Lutjanus apodus and eaten jocu. The reproductive biology of spotted moray is unknown.