Moray,
common name for about 110 species of marine eels. Morays are widespread in warm
or tropical seas, where they live mainly in reefs or other lair-providing rocky
areas. They have scaleless skins, like other eels, and their smooth, muscular
bodies range up to about 3m long in some species. They may also be brightly
colored. Each of the single pair of gill openings is small and circular, and the
gaping mouth is filled with long, sharp, slender teeth. (Certain species have
teeth modified for crushing hard-shelled animal forms.) Typically, morays feed
at night on other fish and on mollusks.
