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Muraenidae

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Noun1.Muraenidae - marine eels
family Muraenidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes - elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced
moray, moray eel - family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
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01 Muraenidae Gymnothorax saxicola Ophichthidae Ophichthus gomesii 0.
Juvenile fish assemblages collected on unconsolidated sediments of ... by Walsh, Harvey J.; Marancik, Katrin E.; Hare, Jonathan A. / Fishery Bulletin
Included Taxonomic in 1% Family Species code data set Muraenidae Gymnothorax sp.
Cross-shelf and seasonal variation in larval fish assemblages on the ... by Marancik, Katrin E.; Clough, Lisa M.; Hare, Jonathan A. / Fishery Bulletin
The muscle tissue of the lancetfish consists mainly of white muscles that are responsible for short-term bursts of motion (Sharp and Pirages, 1978: Schmidt-Nielsen, 1979); and its body form allows it to make short impetuous rushing movements, characteristic of many predatory fishes with anguilliform bodies (Trichiuridae, some of the Gempylidae, Muraenidae, Anotopterus pharao, etc.
First record of a yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) from the stomach ... by Romanov, Evgeny V.; Zamorov, Veniamin V. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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