Muraenesox McClelland, 1843
Description
Vomerine teeth of median row large, compressed, moderately acute, each with sharp anterior and posterior edges and prominent basal cusps; principal teeth on the dentary of the same form, erect or turned slightly inwards.
Habitat
Over soft bottoms down to about 100 m, also in estuaries, in warm seas. Carnivorous, feeding on bottom-living fishes and decapods. Reproduction: spawning in August-September in Japan.
Distribution
A record in the vicinity of Tel Aviv-Jaffa (coast of Israel) (Golani and Ben-Tuvia, 1982). A recent immigrant from the Red Sea. Elsewhere, known from the Red Sea and throughout the northern Indian Ocean to Indonesia and northwards to Japan.
Recent revision: Castle and Williamson, 1975.
Genus included on this CD-rom:
Muraenesox bagio (Hamilton-Buchanan)