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Muraenidae
largehead moray
Uropterygius macrocephalus
Ray beneath the Red Sea
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- Anguilliform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Anguilliform
Mediumlargehead moray is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Uropterygius
- Maximum length
- 47 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea (Ref. 84159 ); Reunion and Mauritius (Ref. 33390 ), Seychelles (Ref. 10685 ); Christmas Island to the Society Islands, north to southern Japan and the Hawaiian islands. Eastern Pacific: southern Gulf of California to Ecuador, including the Revillagigedo, Cocos, and Galapagos islands (Ref. 9324 ). Specimen from Thailand needs further comparison (Ref. 1632 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
