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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Muraenidae

Morays

WoRMS 125431ITIS 161160GBIF 2953key worms:125431
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161160 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gymnothorax melagris

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Muraenidae
Photo · Tony Wood · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Moray eels, or Muraenidae, are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide. There are approximately 200 species in 16 genera which are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, and a few are found in fresh water.W CalCOFI holds 21 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1969 and 2003, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

21
observations
21
records
10
sampling events
1969–2003
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 10 obs · 10 events · 1998–2003 · larva
    name used: Muraenidae Morays · code 370

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125431%22