Name this Critter

[HowardE]

Ok.. Saw the butt end of this thing (I think it's the butt end) it looks like an eel of some kind... This piece of it is about 18 inces to 2 feet long maybe... I was in 50 FSW and near Deerfield Beach, FL. (South East Florida)

I had never seen anything like this, so of course I took a photo of it...

 

[letterboy]

You sure like making things easy don't you. . .

 

[Walter]

Hard or soft? Moving or not?

 

[HowardE]

Hard or soft? Moving or not?

I didn't touch it. Not really moving. It looked like the tail of a Moray. The Humann book shows a "Broad Banded Moray" which looks similar, but they've not been sighted in Florida. Anything is possible I guess.

 

[knotical]

I think you may have nailed it. According to this page:
http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1097
the Broadbanded Moray (Channomuraena vittata), “may occur in Southern Florida”.

 

[Diver0001]

either that or the rest of teh cow is buried under there somewhere....

R..