Laced or Honeycomb Moray Eel - Gymnothorax favagineus

This Honeycomb Moray Eel can grow up to 3 meters length, a very impressive Moray.
They are mostly white to yellow in colour with black spots all over the body.

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Ferdy Christant

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Honeycomb is way too sweet of a name for a bad-ass creature like this. It should be named Jaguar underwater dragon or something like that :) Posted 5 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
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  Ha ha, you have a creative imagination, Ferdy :p
  To the contrary of most believe, Moray Eels are very calm/sub-dued animal, they are also very shy and will withdrawn into the holes and crevices when approached. Posted 5 years ago

The Laced moray

The laced moray, ''Gymnothorax favagineus'', also known as the leopard moray, tesselate moray or honeycomb moray, is a species of moray eel.

Laced moray can grow up to 300cm in length, and as such are one of the larger species of moray eel. They feed mainly on small fish and cephalopods. It has been observed that adults are prone to be aggressive in the wild.

They are found in the Indo-Pacific, and East Africa to Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south of Australia... more

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Similar species: Eels

Species identified by Albert Kang