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Muraenidae
Paintspotted moray
Gymnothorax pictus
One Hundred Forty Centimeters Ray of the Hawaiian Islands
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- Anguilliform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Indian Ocean
Africa
Anguilliform
LargeGymnothorax pictus, the painted moray, paintspotted moray or peppered moray, is a moray eel. The Chamorro name of the eel is títugi.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Gymnothorax
- Maximum length
- 140 cm
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa (Ref. 26165 ) to the Galapagos, Cocos, and Clipperton islands; north to the Hawaiian and Ryukyu islands; south to Australia and the Kermadec Islands.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
