[Coral-List] Morays eating crabs
Keven
reedkc at comcast.net
Wed Jan 3 15:03:21 UTC 2007
Dear Michelle,
Which species of moray is it? The crab eating zebra moray of the Pacific, Gymnomuraena zebra, is known for its molar-like dentition, vice other morays' more canine-like dental work. I've seen G. zebra diving in the Hawaiian Islands and in the Ryukyu Islands between Taiwan and mainland Japan.
While I haven't seen G. zebra 'on the beach', I have photographed it in shallow coral tidepools, under bright sunlight on Okinawa. If you send me your photo, I'll send you my slide of the zebra moray in a daytime tidepool, where I presumed it was foraging, vice merely being trapped by low tide.
Thanks,
Keven
Keven Reed
1651 Country Walk Drive
Orange Park, FL 32003
----- Original Message -----
From: Michelle Taylor
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov ; FISH-SCI at SEGATE.SUNET.SE
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: [Coral-List] Morays eating crabs
Dear All,
A colleague of mine wants to know if moray eels leaving shallow waters to prey on unsuspecting crabs on the beach is a behaviour anyone else has come across? He has a photo but unfortunately I can't attach it for the list to see, I'll happily forward it on to anyone if they want it.
Please could you email me if you have heard of / seen this behaviour before. Many thanks,
Season's greetings!
Michelle Taylor
Imperial College London
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