Green Moray Eel Gymnothorax funebris

The Green Moray Eel is native to the western Atlantic from the US East Coast to Brazil. It is yellowish in colour, but the Yellow Moray is a different species, G. prasinus, native to Australasia.

The skin is actually brownish with a layer of protective yellow mucus. It can grow to some 2.5 metres (over 8 feet) long.

Like all eels, they don't have pelvic fins. Like all morays, they don't have pectoral fins.

They are mainly nocturnal hunters, hiding in crevices in reefs, rocky coasts and mangroves during the day.

Diet is small fish, which makes the team of cleaner fish cleaning its jaws particularly brave.

Morays often hold their mouth open, - a means of passing water through their gills since they don't have gill covers. They have a good sense of smell to locate prey of crustaceans and fish at night.