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Main identification features
- dense irregular small dark spots
- nostrils and head pores dark
- gill opening dark (not black)
Lowfin moray
Head moderate to short (10-14% of total length); snout short and broad; head and trunk about ½ total length; dorsal fin low, its origin a little before gill opening; eye over center of mouth; front nostril a short tube; rear nostril at level of profile of head, just before front edge of eye, raised or in a short tube with a flared, wrinkled margin; mouth moderate; teeth strong, triangular, smooth, partly in two rows on jaws; usually a single row of 6-12 teeth at front roof of mouth; gill opening a diagonal slit.
Dark grey to brown with dark mottling and numerous, small (
Size: 130 cm.
Habitat: rocky reefs.
Depth: 1-13 m.
The southwest Pacific to the southeast Pacific (Chile and Peru) and north to southern Ecuador.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo); South Temperate (Peruvian Province ).
Depth Range Max: 13 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); octopus/squid/cuttlefish; bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=-2; Southern limit=-9; Western limit=-82; Eastern limit=-79; Latitudinal range=7; Longitudinal range=3.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Pacific only (East + Central &/or West); "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All Pacific (West + Central + East); TEP non-endemic; All species.
Habitat: Rocks; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 103 cm.
Regional Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Peruvian province, primarily; Continent only; Continent; Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Guichenot, A., 1848., Fauna Chilena. Peces. Pp. 137-370. In: C. Gay, Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Vol. 2, Zoologia. Paris & Santiago., Fauna Chilena, Peces,.
- Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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