Dark Moray

Amphidromous. Refers to fishes that regularly migrate between freshwater and the sea (in both directions), but not for the purpose of breeding, as in anadromous and catadromous species. Sub-division of diadromous. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km.Characteristic elements in amphidromy are: reproduction in fresh water, passage to sea by newly hatched larvae, a period of feeding and growing at sea usually a few months long, return to fresh water of well-grown juveniles, a further period of feeding and growing in fresh water, followed by reproduction there (Ref. 82692).

Inhabits rocky bottoms (Ref. 2683).

fisheries: minor commercial

The dark moray eel (Gymnothorax afer) is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from Mauritania to Cape Frio, Namibia. It was first named by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1795,.