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Common names: Headspot moray, Head-spot moray
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Museum: off Port Macquarie, New South Wales, AMS I.37982.001 (holotype, 171 mm TL). N of Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia, CSIRO CA2928 (paratype, 202 mm TL).
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Main Ref: Böhlke, E.B. and J.E. McCosker, 2001
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Common names from other countries

Headspot moray, Muréna macquairská, Täpik-silepeamureen, ... more

Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | Catalog of Fishes(वर्ग, प्रजाति) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Muraenidae (Moray eels) > Muraeninae
Etymology: Gymnothorax: Greek, gymnos = naked + Greek, thorax, -akos = breast (Ref. 45335); cephalospilus: From the Greek kephale meaning head and spilos meaning spot. Noun in apposition..
More on authors: Böhlke & McCosker.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range पारिस्थितिकी

समुद्री ड़िमरसल; गहराई सीमा 125 - 134 m (Ref. 41234). Subtropical

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Indo-West Pacific: eastern and western Australia.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 20.2 cm TL पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (Ref. 41234)

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जानवरों की रीड़ का जोड़: 142 - 146. A small, slender, dark brown moray with contrasting eye-sized white spots on head; spots fewer toward anus, very few or lacking on tail; anus at midbody, preanal length 2.0 in TL; depth at gill opening 18-22 in TL; head 8.2-9.3 in TL; teeth stout, no long canines; MVF 6-64-145.

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Böhlke, E.B. and J.E. McCosker, 2001. The moray eels of Australia and New Zealand, with description of two new species (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae). Rec. Aust. Mus. 53(1):71-102. (Ref. 41234)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 17 August 2011

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 17.9 - 22.2, mean 21.1 (based on 4 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00047 (0.00025 - 0.00089), b=3.28 (3.13 - 3.43), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.7 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

लौटाव (Ref. 120179): ऊंचा, न्यूनतम जनसंख्या दुगनी समय अवलागत 15 महीने। (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Medium.

Gymnothorax cephalospilus Böhlke & McCosker, 2001