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Gymnothorax fimbriatus (Bennett, 1832)

Fimbriated moray
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India country information

Common names: Malanhi, Veng, മലഞ്ഞി
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Found in the coasts (Ref. 45255). Collected from a coral reef area with other species of morays (Gymnothorax thyrsoideus); remains of a decapod crustacean shell was found in its digestive tract (Ref. 57775).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Kapoor, D., R. Dayal and A.G. Ponniah, 2002
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Tên thường gặp | Các synonym ( Các tên trùng) | Catalog of Fishes(Giống, Các loài) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Muraenidae (Moray eels) > Muraeninae
Etymology: Gymnothorax: Greek, gymnos = naked + Greek, thorax, -akos = breast (Ref. 45335);  fimbriatus: Named for Tamara Mikhailovna Ambrozhevich (Ref. 57775).
  More on author: Bennett.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Sinh thái học

Biển; Thuộc về nước lợ Cùng sống ở rạn san hô; Mức độ sâu 0 - 50 m (Ref. 90102).   Tropical; 30°N - 28°S

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Indo-Pacific: Madagascar (Ref. 33390) to the Society Islands, north to southern Japan (Ref. 559), south to Queensland, Australia; throughout Micronesia.

Bộ gần gũi / Khối lượng (Trọng lượng) / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 93.4 cm TL con đực/không giới tính; (Ref. 121652); 87.2 cm TL (female); Khối lượng cực đại được công bố: 1.5 kg (Ref. 121652); Khối lượng cực đại được công bố: 1.5 kg

Short description Khóa để định loại | Hình thái học | Sinh trắc học

Động vật có xương sống: 128 - 142. Adults pale with small black spots on face; black spots proportionally much larger in young (Ref. 30404).

Sinh học     Tự điển (thí dụ epibenthic)

Occurs in lagoons, reef flats and seaward reefs (Ref. 1602, 48635). Prefers protected inshore waters among dead corals, common in harbors and small caves (Ref. 30404). Probably nocturnal (Ref. 1602). Feeds on fishes and crustaceans (Ref. 9710). Possibly a protogynous hermaphrodite (Ref. 32169). Current age of a captive individual is 18 years, which exceeds 100 cm and approximately 10 lbs (owner Mark Palermo, pers. comm. 07/12). Minimum depth reported taken from Ref. 86942.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Sự tái sinh sản | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Ấu trùng

Protogyny unconfirmed (Ref. 84746).

Main reference Upload your references | Các tài liệu tham khảo | Người điều phối | Người cộng tác

Chen, H.-M., K.-T. Shao and C.T. Chen, 1994. A review of the muraenid eels (Family Muraenidae) from Taiwan with descriptions of twelve new records. Zool. Stud. 33(1):44-64. (Ref. 6934)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


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