Black spotted Moray
Submitted by eveline on Sat, 2009-12-05 22:28
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Andre Crone Distribution:
The black spotted moray lives in the Indo-Pacific area. From the red sea, East Africa till Papua New Guinea. Furthermore around Japan and Australia.
Food:
Food of the moray is quite varied and can consist of small fish, crustaceans, cephalopods et cetera.
The black spotted moray is a white, sometimes yellow, moray with black spots. With some animals the pattern of these spots resembles that of a leopard. Adult animals often have some smaller spots that form sort of a honeycomb pattern. The animals live a solitary life and live in crevices in the reef, both on the inner- as on the outer reefs.
Animals living in clearer water usually have less black spots than animals living in turbid waters. Near the moray cleaner fish and cleaner shrimps live.
The length of the animals can vary but they can grow up to 2,5 meter.
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