Diagnostic Description
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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).
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Biology
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Lives together in fine sediments of the upper continental slope.
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Saddled moray eel: Brief Summary
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The saddled moray eel (Gymnothorax conspersus) is a moray eel found in the western Atlantic Ocean. It was first named by Felipe Poey in 1867.
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Distribution
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Western Atlantic: North Carolina to Brazil
North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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Habitat
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North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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