Banded Mud Moray

Body with broad black bands (Ref. 48635).Description: Characterized by whitish to pale yellow color; with distinctive pattern of 12-14 dark brown to blackish bars, narrower than pale interspaces; ventral surface of head with elongate blackish streak; head densely covered with small dark spots; less dense spots on upper half of trunk and tail in pale spaces between dark bars; body depth at gill opening about 14-22 in TL; origin of dorsal fin is closer to gill opening than corner of mouth; anus anterior to middle of body; serrated jaw teeth in large specimens (Ref. 90102).

Occurs in coastal sand and mud habitat, living in holes near rubble or reef (Ref. 48635).

fisheries: of no interest

分布於西太平洋區，包括印尼、菲律賓、日本及台灣。臺灣分布於東北部海域。陳等(2010)首次紀錄於墾丁。

一般可利用延繩釣或底拖網等漁法捕獲。中小型鯙類，不具食用及觀賞價值。

體延長而呈圓柱狀，尾部側扁。吻圓；上下頜完全密合，無頜間尖牙；上、下頜齒呈尖牙狀，單列；鋤骨齒單列。脊椎骨數144-153。體側橫帶呈明顯之深黑色並具白邊，各橫帶之背腹相連形成完整之環狀，約有12-14條橫帶，環狀橫帶間及頭部有許多小圓黑斑點。

主要棲息於沿岸水層較深處，約達100公尺。肉食性，伺機捕食魚類或頭足類為生。

The banded mud moray (Gymnothorax chlamydatus) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean (Taiwan and Indonesia). It was first named by Snyder in 1908, because of dark bands along its body.