Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked.
1Striped green moray eels peered at her from their rock crevice homes.
2And if the moray is in the mood they swim off together.
3Once a moray eel clamps on something, it doesn't let go.
4Rivera thought of himself as being just like that moray eel.
5Every ruler has subjects, and the moray is no exception.
6That's a moray eel, and that white bit you see emerging from its throat?
7He looked like a moray eel in a tank.
8Having a moray eel eat his face ought to be the least of his punishment.
9The moray eel side of the fish tank.
10A moray transferring its prey from its regular teeth to the pharyngeal jaws is functionally quite similar.
11Some moray eels, which live in coral, are a hundred times as long as they are thick.
12Groupers, when going foraging, will often try to recruit a moray to join them in the foraging foray.
13If the moray accepts, the two stalk side by side in an incredible feat of interspecies cooperation, shown below.
15Image: Rita Mehta But their jaws have nowhere near the dexterity of those in the 200-odd species of moray eel.
16Some moray eel owners went out of their way to make sure they stocked fish that the creature wouldn't eat.