A dark eastern Pacific moray with a pale snout, out on rubble at night and hidden by day.
To about 73 cm. The blunt-faced profile of its genus — short snout, short jaws — and orange front nostril tubes, which is what the name refers to and the quickest mark on it. Dark brown to nearly blackish with scattered white to yellowish spots. The adult teeth are blunt and molar-like rather than fangs, which shows if the mouth gapes.
The fine-spotted moray is the confusion and everything about the head separates them: pointed snout and sharp conical teeth there, blunt snout, molar teeth and orange nostril tubes here.
Nought to thirty metres on rock, rubble, reef and soft bottoms. Nocturnal, eating crabs, lobsters and molluscs, and described as not frequently seen.
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.
