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GREEN MORAY FACTS |
Description
Body elongate, robust, compressed, dorsal fin low, fleshy, arising on head; snout narrow, bluntly rounded, with visible nostril tubes and a series of large pores surrounded by black along both jaws; mouth large with prominent fang-like teeth; brown to yellowish-brown or bright green, head yellowish. Up to 1.5 m long head to tail tip.
The Green Moray is relatively common on the eastern and western coasts, where it occurs in bays, estuaries, and on coastal and offshore reefs. This curious eel shelters in rocky holes and crevices often amongst kelp, and may bite if provoked.
Author credit: Dianne J. Bray, Dr Martin F. Gomon / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Rocky reefs in weedy areas.
Food
Carnivore
Range
New Zealand and southern Australia.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Actinopterygii | | Order: | Anguilliformes | | Family: | Muraenidae | | Genus: | Gymnothorax | | Species: | prasinus | | Common Name: | Green Moray |
Relatives in same Genus
Abbott's Moray (G. eurostus)
Tessellate Moray (G. favagineus)
Fimbriate Moray (G. fimbriatus)
Giant Moray (G. javanicus)
Whitemouth Moray (G. meleagris)
Saw-tooth Moray (G. prionodon)
Greyface Moray Eel (G. thyrsoideus)
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