>
Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) >
Muraenidae (Moray eels) > Muraeninae
Etymology: Gymnothorax: Greek, gymnos = naked + Greek, thorax, -akos = breast (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Poey.
Meio ambiente: milieu / Zona climática / intervalo de profundidade / faixa de distribuição
Ecologia
marinhas batidemersal; intervalo de profundidade 100 - 310 m (Ref. 57911), usually 179 - 254 m (Ref. 13608). Deep-water; 36°N - 40°S, 100°W - 35°W (Ref. 57911)
Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico to Rio Grande do Sul. North Carolina, Florida, USA, Antilles, Colombia to southern Brazil (Ref. 26938). Also found in Argentina (Ref. 86327)
Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturidade: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 110 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 57911)
Body light brown to chestnut brown in color, head paler; posterior half of tail nearly black, spotted with white roundish markings larger than eye; white and black bands on dorsal fin; corner of mouth and gill openings not black (Ref. 13608).
Body shape (shape guide): eel-like.
Lives together in fine sediments of the upper continental slope.
Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Uyeno, T., K. Matsuura and E. Fujii (eds.), 1983. Fishes trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo, Japan. 519 p. (Ref. 13608)
Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Ameaça para os humanos
Harmless
Uso pelos humanos
Pescarias: pouco comercial
Ferramentas
Relatórios especiais
Baixar XML
Fontes da internet
Estimativas baseadas em modelos
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
|
Bayesian length-weight
|
a=0.00037 (0.00023 - 0.00060), b=3.24 (3.11 - 3.37), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nível Trófico (Ref. 69278) |
4.1 ±0.7 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Vulnerabilidade da pesca (Ref. 59153) |
High vulnerability (64 of 100). 🛈 |
Categoria de preço (Ref. 80766) |
Medium.
|