Spotted moray eel
Gymnothorax moringa
Sighting evidence at Kittiwake Wreck, Grand Cayman
Photo: Kevin Bryant · CC BY-NC-SA
Spotted moray eels colonise the dark recesses of the Kittiwake's interior passageways and engine compartments, emerging at night to hunt fish and crustaceans. Their distinctive cream and brown spot patterning provides camouflage among encrusting organisms, and they rely on chemoreception through paired nostrils rather than vision to locate prey. They coexist with cleaner shrimp that pick parasites from around their formidable teeth.
Evidence at this site
No confirmed records on file at this site
Spotted moray eel is listed as a curated species here based on historical reports.