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Dwarf Moray
Gymnothorax melatremus
Gymnothorax melatremus, the blackspot moray, dirty yellow moray or dwarf moray, is a moray eel from the Indo-Pacific East Africa to the Marquesas and Mangaréva, north to the Hawaiian Islands, south to the Australs islands. It rarely makes its way into the aquarium trade.
From the article Gymnothorax melatremus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
Like other moray eels, Gymnothorax melatremus is carnivorous. In the wild, it feeds on any crustaceans and small fish it can catch for example: ghost shrimp, dead squid, firefish, jawfish & etc.
Aquarium Diet. This moray eel is part of the aquarium hobby and you can feed it: Dead fishes, chopped cephalopods and small shrimp.
Wikipedia: “Diet”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123522.