Gymnothorax javanicus

Observation: Recorded from Vizhinjam (8 ° 22 ′ 32 ″ N, 76 ° 59 ′ 28 ″ E to 8 ° 22 ′ 36 ″ N, 76 ° 59 ′ 32 ″ E) at a depth of 3 m on April 13, 2015.

Sumber: New Distributional Records of 31 Marine Fish Species from Rocky Reefs of Kerala: Insights from Underwater Visual Census on the Southwest Coast of India

Distribution: Indo-West Pacific, recorded throughout the Red Sea to East Africa.

Sumber: New Distributional Records of 31 Marine Fish Species from Rocky Reefs of Kerala: Insights from Underwater Visual Census on the Southwest Coast of India

Description. In TL: preanal length 2.0 – 2.2, predorsal length 7.9 – 10, head length 6.6 – 8.1, body depth at anus 16 – 24. In head length: snout length 5.6 – 6.5, eye diameter 9.3 – 13, upper-jaw length 2.5 – 2.9. Pores: LL 2, SO 3, IO 4, POM 6. Vertebrae: predorsal 5 – 7, preanal 60 – 61, total 137 – 141. Body moderate to robust, the depth increasing with growth; anus at or slightly before midlength; dorsal-fin origin before gill opening. Jaws moderate, of equal length. Eye moderate, over middle of upper jaw. Anterior nostril tubular; posterior nostril with a raised rim, above or slightly behind anterior margin of eye. Teeth smooth, slender and pointed or blade-like. Intermaxillary teeth in a single peripheral series, 4 – 5 on each side sometimes with a few much smaller teeth between; 2 – 3 median teeth. Maxillary teeth uniserial except in small specimens, which may have 1 – 3 larger inner teeth anteriorly, and about 13 – 15 smaller teeth in outer row. Dentary with 2 – 3 larger inner teeth anteriorly and about 10 – 20 smaller outer teeth. Vomerine teeth biserial anteriorly. Color: body and fins brown, with small, darker brown or black markings consisting of subquadrate to irregular spots (those dorsally are larger), sometimes with a pale center, in approximately three irregular rows. Head usually darker than body. Small specimens have a lighter background color with broadly spaced, obvious, round spots, most of them larger than eye. Large specimens tend to be darker overall with smaller spots. Gill opening in a conspicuous dark spot. Iris brown. Maximum size 2 m or greater.

Sumber: Review of the moray eels (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species

Distribution and habitat. Widely distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific region from the Red Sea and east coast of Africa east to the Hawaiian Islands, Line Islands, and Pitcairn Islands, also reported from Costa Rica and Panama in the eastern Pacific. Common on coral reefs and rocky substrata, at depths of 0 – 46 m.

Sumber: Review of the moray eels (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa and Mozambique Channel east to Hawaiian Islands, Pitcairn Group and Cocos Island, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Found in crevices in lagoon and seaward reefs; juveniles on the intertidal reef flat, 0 – 50 m depth. Marine.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records