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moray eel - family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked

moray

eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

family Muraenidae, Muraenidae - marine eels

Translations

Muräne

murène

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But it also set my heart-racing as I came face to face with a mean-looking moray eel, swam with manta rays, better known as Devil Fish and glided through an eerie barnacle-encrusted shipwreck 80 feet below the surface.

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The honeycomb moray eel, which has very bad eyesight and relies on its sense of smell, will also be on display.

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And in the Bahamas, while he was snorkeling with his ecology students, a moray eel mistook a glint from his wedding ring for a small fish and nearly ripped his finger off.

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Around each bend of the circular offshore reef was another surprise - a blue-lipped clam, a clownfish (like Disney's Nemo) guarding an anemone, a shy octopus, a spiky lion fish and a sinister moray eel.

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