Tiger Freshwater Moray Eel Gymnothorax polyuranodon

The Tiger Freshwater Moray Eel is also called just the Freshwater Moray and also the Black-spotted and Leopard Moray (the last two are also names for the marine Laced or Tessellated Moray). It is not confined to freshwater but lives also in brakish estuarine water and coastal marine. Like the European Eel, it would seem to live most of its adult life in freshwater but also brakish water and migrate to marine waters to spawn.

It is native to coastal tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific from Sri Lanka to the Philippines and to northern Australia. The body pattern is mainly dark brown blotches on a lighter brown background. It grows to between 1 and 1.5 metres long. It is a piscivore with relatively short teeth, poor vision and a good sense of smell.