Muraenesox McClelland, 1843
Vomerine teeth of median row large, compressed, moderately acute, each with sharp anterior and posterior edges and prominent basal cusps; principal teeth on the dentary of the same form, erect or turned slightly inwards.
Habitat: over soft bottoms down to about 100 m, also in estuaries, in warm seas. Food: carnivorous (bottom-living fishes and decapods). Reproduction: spawning in August-September in Japan.
Distribution: a record in the vicinity of Tel Aviv-Jaffa (coast of Israel) (Golani and Ben-Tuvia, 1982). A recent immigrant from the Red Sea. Elsewhere, known from the Red Sea and throughout the northern Indian Ocean to Indonesia and northwards to Japan.
Species 2; in Clofnam area 1.
Recent revision: Castle and Williamson (1975).
Species of this genus in the program:
Muraenesox cinereus