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Scuticaria tigrina
Family Muraenidae
INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII
EASTERN PACIFIC
Scuticaria tigrina
TIGER MORAY
puhi
Uncommon in crevices on shallow reefs.
Slender cylindrical body with a blunt head and small eyes, cream to flesh
with purplish-brown blotches of various size. Attains 55 inches.
Reported from scattered localities from East Africa to Taiwan, Hawaii,
Society Islands, Mexico, and Panama. Formerly known as Uropterygius
tigrinus. |
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