The largest moray in the region and uniformly dark green, which is a yellow mucus over blue-grey skin rather than green pigment.
To about 2 m and the largest moray in the western Atlantic. It is not green: the skin is blue-grey and it is covered in a yellow mucus, and the two together read as green. It is uniform in colour, which separates it from every other moray in the region.
It lives in a hole, a crevice or a wreck, with the head out, opening and closing its mouth. That is breathing, not threatening. It hunts at night by smell, because its eyesight is poor, and the poor eyesight is the hazard: a hand pushed into a hole is not seen, and is bitten. The teeth point backwards, so the bite tears rather than punctures, it does not release easily, and the wound becomes infected readily. Do not feed one — the fed animals in this region are the ones that come out to meet divers, and they are the ones that bite.
Ratings are per location: 1 means found on most dives that look for it, 5 means a handful of records. Where enough dives have been logged the figure is calculated from them; otherwise it is an editorial estimate, and says so. We publish habitat and destination, not the dive site.
