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Spotted Moray

Gymnothorax isingteena

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) regray, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

24 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in China.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 1, May 2, June 1, July 7, August 4, September 2, October 1, November 1, December 2.
China21
Taiwan Province13
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region6
Indonesia6
Taiwan6
Malaysia4
Terengganu4
West Nusa Tenggara3
Pingtung County3
Fujian Province2

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderTrue Eels · Anguilliformes
FamilyMorays · Muraenidae
GenusCommon Morays · Gymnothorax

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Spotted Moray with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.