Description. In TL: preanal length 1.9 – 2.2, predorsal length 11 – 13, head length 8.0 – 9.8, body depth at anus 25 – 34. In head length: snout length 5.3 – 7.1, eye diameter 8.8 – 11, upper-jaw length 2.8 – 3.5. Pores: LL 2, SO 3, IO 4, POM 6. Vertebrae: predorsal 4, preanal 58 – 70, total 143 – 152. Body moderately elongate; anus near mid-length; dorsal fin begins slightly before gill opening; tail relatively slender. Head and jaws moderate, jaws closing completely. Eye well developed, at about midpoint of upper jaw. Gill opening nearly horizontal, midlateral. Anterior nostril tubular, reaches edge of lip when depressed; posterior nostril oval, with a slightly raised rim, over anterior part of eye. Teeth conical to narrowly triangular, finely serrate on posterior edge. Upper jaw with about 5 or 6 peripheral intermaxillary teeth, narrowly triangular, retrorse; 0 – 3 median teeth, conical. Maxillary teeth uniserial, about 7 – 14, similar in shape to intermaxillary teeth. Dentary teeth uniserial, similar in shape to those in upper jaw, with about 7 – 19 teeth on each side. Vomer with about 3 – 6 teeth in a single row. Color: medium to light brown or tan, snout and lower jaw darker, abdomen sometimes white; head pores in conspicuous white spots, nostrils white; fins with narrow pale edge; iris yellow. Of the ten known specimens, the largest is 560 mm.
Sumber: Review of the moray eels (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species