Longtail Moray, Strophidon sathete (Hamilton-Buchanan 1822)
Other Names: Giant Estuarine Moray, Long-tailed Eel, Slender Giant Moray
A Longtail Moray, Strophidon sathete, on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Source: Roger Steene / FishBase. License: All rights reserved
Summary:
A very large brownish-grey moray with a paler underside.
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Bray, D.J. 2024, Strophidon sathete in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4296
Longtail Moray, Strophidon sathete (Hamilton-Buchanan 1822)
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Distribution |
Northeast of Lesueur Island, Kimberley Coast, Western Australia, to near the mouth of the Coomera River, Gold Coast, Queensland. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region: Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar, and the Mascarenes east to the Society Islands, and Fiji, including the Mariana Islands, north to Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands in southern Japan, and south to Australia and New Caledonia. A reef-associated, solitary, amphidromous species inhabiting burrows in muddy areas in the lower reaches of lagoons, rivers, estuaries and coastal marine waters. |
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Features |
Vertebrae 183-196. Body moderately elongate, cylindrical in front, compressed along tail; eyes small; teeth small, biserial, inner series enlarged; head not obviously distinct from trunk although the profile is moderately steep; very large mouth, extending to well beyond eye; biserial sharp teeth on jaws, larger in front and in inner row; dorsal fin inserted on head before gill-opening; scales absent. |
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Feeding |
A nocturnal species that feeds mostly on crustaceans and small fishes. |
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Species Citation |
Muraenophis sathete Hamilton 1822, An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges: 17, 363. Type locality: Botanical Garden of Calcutta, Ganges River system, India. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Longtail Moray, Strophidon sathete (Hamilton-Buchanan 1822)
References
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Bleeker, P. 1864. Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néerlandaises, publié sous les auspices du Gouvernement colonial néerlandais. Tome 4. Murènes, Symbranches, Leptocéphales. Amsterdam : Fréd. Müller 132 pp. pls 145-193.
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Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3)
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Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293
McClelland, J. 1844. Apodal fishes of Bengal. Journal of Natural History. Calcutta 5(18): 151-226 pls 5-14 (described as Lycodontis longicaudata, type locality Bengal)
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