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Muraenidae
viper moray
Enchelycore nigricans
Ray beneath the Caribbean Sea
viper moray is a marine fish of Western Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 100 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Enchelycore
- Maximum length
- 100 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Bermuda, southern Florida (USA) and the Bahamas to northern South America, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (Ref. 3255 ). Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde and from Senegal to Gabon; including St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121 ) and the islands of Bay of Biafra (Ref. 4450 ). Also southern Atlantic islands (Ref. 26938 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

