Yellowmargin Moray

Q: Where can you find Yellowmargin Moray?

Yellowmargin Moray can be found in: Egypt East, Laccadive Islands, Mariana Islands, Cocos Island, Australia West, Saudi Arabia West, Oman North, Malaysia East, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Malpelo Island, Costa Rica West, Marshall Islands, Malaysia West, Komodo Island, Galapagos, Hawaii, Pacific East, Colombia West, Somalia East, Vanuatu, Sudan, Brunei, China, Ecuador, Myanmar, Eritrea, Australia, Hong Kong, Kenya, Qatar, India, Israel, USA West, Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico West, Japan South, India East, India West, Thailand East, Thailand West, Panama West, Israel South, Saudi Arabia East, Oman, Oman East, Somalia North, Australia East, Nicaragua West, Guatemala West, Honduras South, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Vietnam, Seychelles, Cambodia, Indo-Pacific, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Iraq, Polynesia, Singapore, Tanzania, Malaysia, Kuwait, Bahrain, USA, Honduras, South Africa, Red Sea, Japan, Indonesia, Chagos Islands, Mexico, Mozambique, Jordan, Palau, Philippines, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Egypt, Tonga and Samoa, Yemen, Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, Kiribati, Pakistan, Djibouti, El Salvador, Iran South, United Arab Emirates, Comoros, Fiji, Thailand, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Pacific Ocean, Colombia, Somalia, Nicaragua, Guatemala.

Gymnothorax flavimarginatus

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Gymnothorax flavimarginatus is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae.

Other names: Yellow-edged Moray.

Description

Color of body is yellowish, densely mottled with dark brown. A front of head is purplish grey. Posterior margins of fins are yellow-green. Its gill is opening in a black blotch. Eyes are reddish brown. Juveniles sometimes are bright yellow with brown blotches. Its length is up to 240 cm.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and South Africa eastward to the Tuamoto and Austral islands, north to the Ryukyu and Hawaiian islands, south to New Caledonia. Eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panama and the Galapagos. Southeast Atlantic: South Africa.

Habitat

It occurs in coral or rocky areas of reef flats and protected shorelines to seaward reefs. It feeds on cephalopods, fishes, and crustaceans. Most often appears on the reef after a fish has been speared during daylight. The regularity and promptness of such appearances make it clear that G. flavimarginatus is especially sensitive to stimuli emanating from an injured or stressed fish. It is found at depths to 150 m. This moray eel was recently identified as natural predator of the lionfish Pterois miles in its native habitat in the Red Sea.