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Gymnothorax undulatus
Also known as Common Moray Eel and Undulated Moray, they are usually pale yellow, but also brown, grey or whitish. The head is heavily mottled with dark spots, top often greenish yellow; body with large dark blotches separated by diffuse yellowish lines, forming a "chain-link" pattern, which is more pronounced in juveniles than in adults, whose patterns are more irregularly mottled. They feed on fish, octopi and probably crustaceans, and attain a length of about 150cm.
They inhabit rocky bottoms, at depths of 1 to 30m. Widespread in the Indo-Pacific region.
Spotted this during a night dive, at a depth of about 12m. It measured less than 10cm long.
Almost 25 years ago I saw one Eel when I do not know anything on any organism. I was walking on beach in Mid Kokan area with semi forest area of Maharashtra's Sindhudurg Dist. One Eel was trapped in small water log made within sand some meters away from waterfront that time. May be low tide caused his trapping. As I approached to it, it opened its mouth and terrified me and I moved away. Only that time I saw an Eel.
Last month I read one article on Atlantic Eels with their life cycle their form and shape also changed. They travel very long distance within deep sea.
Spotted on May 11, 2012
Submitted on May 21, 2012
