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Muraenidae (Moray eels) > Muraeninae
Etymology: Gymnothorax: Greek, gymnos = naked + Greek, thorax, -akos = breast (Ref. 45335).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marinhas associadas(os) a recifes; intervalo de profundidade 1 - 50 m (Ref. 58047), usually 5 - 30 m (Ref. 26938). Tropical; 42°N - 30°S, 99°W - 13°W (Ref. 55256)
Western Atlantic: New Jersey (USA), Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. Recorded once from Nova Scotia, Canada. Eastern Atlantic and eastern Pacific (Ref. 26340).
Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 250 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 7251); common length : 150 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 5217); peso máx. publicado: 29.0 kg (Ref. 9710)
Very large brown moray, uniformly dark green to brown (Ref. 26938).
A benthic and solitary species (Ref. 26340) occurring along rocky shorelines, reefs, and mangroves (Ref. 3255).Usually found shallower than 30 m (Ref. 26938). Due to its large size and aggressiveness, the bites of this moray are particularly dangerous (Ref. 3255). Feeds mainly at night on fish and crustaceans (Ref. 42064). Marketed fresh and salted (Ref. 3255). Large individuals are ciguatoxic (Ref. 3255).
Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Spawning migrations and leptocephalus larvae (ref. 42064).
Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)
Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Ameaça para os humanos
Traumatogenic (Ref. 3255)
Uso pelos humanos
Pescarias: pouco comercial; Aquário: Aquários públicos
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Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 23.3 - 28, mean 26 °C (based on 476 cells).
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00062 (0.00041 - 0.00093), b=3.27 (3.15 - 3.39), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Nível Trófico (Ref.
69278): 4.0 ±0.71 se; based on food items.
Resiliência (Ref.
120179): Muito baixo(a), tempo mínimo de duplicação da população maior que 14 anos (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Very high vulnerability (90 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 16 [8, 25] mg/100g; Iron = 0.4 [0.2, 0.8] mg/100g; Protein = 18.7 [16.4, 21.3] %; Omega3 = 0.0823 [, ] g/100g; Selenium = 60.6 [27.2, 130.1] μg/100g; VitaminA = 56.2 [13.7, 218.4] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.72 [0.49, 1.05] mg/100g (wet weight);