What type of moray?

[tursiops]

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Dan_T, you keep showing pix of Western Tropical Pacific morays......highly unlikely..

 

[Dan]

Dan_T, you keep showing pix of Western Tropical Pacific morays......highly unlikely..

You are right. My bad. Dark spotted moray and Fimbriated moray are the same moray variation of Gymnothorax fimbriatus.

 

[LStewart]

It doesn’t look like spotted moray as its pots are irregular. I couldn’t find such pattern in Reef Fish Identification Florida Caribbean Bahamas book by Paul Humann & Ned Deloach. You may find the Indo-Pacific eel lost in Caribbean.

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May have snuck through the Panama Canal!

 

[LStewart]

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Which one is the closest?

I know what you're saying but the Fimbriated Moray is Indo-Pac not Caribbean, right?

 

[Dan]

I know what you're saying but the Fimbriated Moray is Indo-Pac not Caribbean, right?

Congratulations! You may have found an unrecorded fimbriated moray, Bonaire variation, called Stewart moray

 

[Dan]

Spotted moray eels have black background with lots of regular pattern of white spots throughout their entire bodies. Stewart moray has greenish yellow background with irregular black spots, much like Indo-Pacific fimbriated moray.

 

[tursiops]

Spotted moray eels have black background with lots of regular pattern of white spots throughout their entire bodies. Stewart moray has greenish yellow background with irregular black spots, much like Indo-Pacific fimbriated moray.

Look up the spotted moray on fishbase.org, the definitive site for scientists. You'll find a lot more variations than what you are describing.

 

[cgills]

Saw this eel in a coral head with 2 other eels and some type of worm looking creature. Is it an albino or something else?

Interesting, to me it almost looks to be a hybrid cross of a Spotted Moray and a Chain Moray. The shape of the head resembles that of a Chain, where as the color looks to be that of a Spotted.

 

[Dan]

Look up the spotted moray on fishbase.org, the definitive site for scientists. You'll find a lot more variations than what you are describing.

How to find them? I only found 1, Spotted moray in fishbase.org

Gymnothorax moringa summary page

 

[Dan]

Interesting, to me it almost looks to be a hybrid cross of a Spotted Moray and a Chain Moray. The shape of the head resembles that of a Chain, where as the color looks to be that of a Spotted.

Interesting observation.

Chain moray
Echidna catenata summary page