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Main identification features
- rear nostril - hole over center eye
- dorsal fin and a: low crests on rear of tail
- tail: ~1/2 total length point blunt
UROPTERYGIUS
SNAKE-MORAYS
Slender, moderately elongate, compressed at rear; tail slightly longer than head & trunk; dorsal & anal fins present as skin covered ridges near tip of tail; no pectoral fins; snout short, ~conical; eye moderate, over middle of jaws; front nostril tubular; rear nostril a hole or short tube above front edge of eye; gill opening a small slit at ~mid side; pores above & below eye, along lower jaw, before gill opening; teeth conical, slender, sharp, often in multiple rows on jaws.
A circumtropical genus of ~21 species; represented in our region by 2 Indo-Pacific species and 2 endemics.
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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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