Tropical Tuesday: A Goldspotted Eel
🕑 Added 2021-05-25 12:13:03 +0000 UTCI always see the coolest stuff when I’m with Jeremy!
The goldspotted eel (Myrichthys ocellatus), also known as the goldspotted snake eel or the dark-spotted snake eel, is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1825, originally under the genus Muraenophis. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, including Puerto Rico, Bermuda, southern Florida, USA; the Bahamas, Santa Catarina, and Brazil. It dwells at a maximum depth of 15 metres (49 ft), and inhabits rocky and coral reefs. Males can reach a maximum total length of 110 centimetres (3.6 ft).
The Goldspotted eel is a commercial aquarium fish. As is common with eels, it forages for food mostly during the night; its diet consists of crabs, stomatopods, and echinoderms.
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M M
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Steven Malc
That is a pretty cool eel. The pattern is so symmetrical. I would have expected the spots to be more random.
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