Gymnothorax emmae
Encyclopedia
Gymnothorax emmae is a moray eel
found in tropical ocean waters off Vietnam
. It is found in coral reefs at a depth range of 14m-100m in the South China Sea
. The maximum length of this species 43.0 cm.
Eggs
of this species are large (1 mm in diameter) and pallid yellowish.
Moray eel
Moray eels are cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. The approximately 200 species in 15 genera are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water and a few, for example the freshwater moray can sometimes be found in freshwater...
found in tropical ocean waters off Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
. It is found in coral reefs at a depth range of 14m-100m in the South China Sea
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Singapore and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around...
. The maximum length of this species 43.0 cm.
Eggs
Egg (biology)
An egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo first begins to develop. In most birds, reptiles, insects, molluscs, fish, and monotremes, an egg is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum, which is expelled from the body and permitted to develop outside the body until the developing...
of this species are large (1 mm in diameter) and pallid yellowish.