#kidako moray

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Moray eel side profiles

Kidako moray • Gymnothorax ryukyuensis • spotted moray eel • Australian mottled moray • giant moray • highfin moray

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Marine Encyclopedia - The Gabbiano

Endless Ocean, Nintendo Wii

my low-res tube children. i put them in a little pencil cup for safe keeping

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kidako moray photographed by ian shaw

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Tags

Endless Ocean Luminous, Nintendo Switch

what is the pattern in this eclectic group of creature tags? well... they all have internal memos connected to them which imply they were meant to depict a creature that wasn't included in the final game!

 The tiger puffer tag's memo reads "イソギンチャク", or "sea anemone"

 The Kidako moray tag's memo reads "ウミウシ", or "sea slug"

 The longtooth grouper's tag memo reads "グッピー", or "guppy"

 The Japanese spider crab tag's memo reads "クリオネ", or "sea angel"

 The giant isopod tag's memo reads "タコ", or "octopus"

 The Moorish idol tag's memo reads "ヒトデ", or "starfish"

 The red sea bream tag's memo reads "ほら貝", or "Triton's trumpet" (a large species of sea snail)

 The polka-dot stingray tag's memo reads "ホタテ貝", or "Japanese scallop"

 The salmon tag's memo reads "レアクリオネ(青)" or "rare sea angel (blue)"

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Rock Bluff - Manoa Lai Main

Endless Ocean, Nintendo Wii

the most miraculous shot of my career... getting a photo where the pyramid butterflyfish school is all neat and facing one direction is tougher than you might assume

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The Kidako Moray, Gymnothorax kidako (1846)

Phylum : Chordata Class : Actinopterygii Order : Anguilliformes Family : Muraenidae Genus : Gymnothorax Species : G. kidako

Least concern

90 cm long (size)

Taiwan, Philippines and Japan seas (map)

The Kidako moray, Gymnothorax kidako, is a type of Moray eel native to the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, specifically the ocean regions around Taiwan, parts of the Philippines, and southern Japan east to the Hawaiian Islands. The kidako moray is usually dark-yellow with a spreading, treelike brown pattern and has been known to reach a maximum size of between 80 cm and 91.5 cm. It usually resides in crevices in shallow reefs. Sometimes the kidako moray is used for a food source in Japan and as a result it is included in some minor commercial fisheries in Japan.