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Updated 6/23/2024

Family Muraenidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Gymnothorax melatremus

Sharks Cove, Oahu, 25 feet

 

Sharkfin, Lana'i, 60 feet

Kewalo, Oahu, 70 feet

 


Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 50 feet


Kewalo, Oahu, 50 feet
  
   

DWARF MORAY      puhi

Common in small holes along ledges at scuba depth.  Head blunt with straight jaws and bright eyes with a dark vertical bar, cream or yellow with finely reticulated with brown, and a dark spot around the gill opening.  Attains 12 inches.  East Africa to Okinawa, Hawai'i, and French Polynesia.