#fimbriated

[bonusdragons]

January 20, 2024:

Rust Secondary, Undertide, Lionfish.

Fimbriated of PersimmonCici's clan!

[heraldrydiculous]

357 Concentric

[eelposting]

Happy Wet Beast Wednesday!!!

Fimbriated moray eel

Do you have games on your phone?

[incognitopolls]

Photo under the cut for slightly gross (but not gory) mouth anatomy.

The fimbriated fold of tongue, which is a fold of the mucous membrane under your tongue, sometimes has these little fringes– they're normal tissue left over from fetal development.

[Photo ID under read more: a close-up side view of a white person's open mouth, with their tongue sticking out and up. Along each the two ridges on the underside of the tongue, there is a row of fringe-like growths the same pink color as the tongue, ranging from approximately 2–5mm. They vaguely resemble small tentacles or roots. End ID.]

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[sleightofhandcheck]

Gymnothorax fimbriatus or the Fimbriated moray.

This little guy poked his head out to come say hello. Interestingly enough, I don’t think that glassy colouration to the eye is normal, my theory is that it has been damaged from a disease or parasite. Would love to hear more from someone more knowledgeable :)

[erlandious]

So. The lil fella grew

[i-give-you-a-fish]

You get a Fimbriated Moray

Gymnothorax fimbriatus

get rabied *chomp chomp bite*

hey hEY HEY STOP THAT HEY-- *starts foaming at the mouth*

[microtyalm13]

yaay i did it. sillies for mermay! 🦞xiao is the prettiest merman out there who could've guessed....

gavriil, orca.

derzena, carpet shark.

and xiao, fimbriated moray!

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #243

Brought to you by a marine biologist with some moray appreciation...

CLICK HERE FOR THE AC FISH EXPLAINED MASTERPOST!

We have covered morays extensively; they seem to be AC's favorite Anguilliformes, or true eels. The eels we have covered so far are mostly from the Family Muraenidae, the morays, which are quite diverse and really cool, so I get it. The ones we've covered so far are the ribbon eel, the moray eel (which we found was the Kidako moray), and the white ribbon eel. Our other eels were the spotted and splendid garden eels (which are conger eels), the pelican eel (which is a weirdo all by itself in its own Family) and the eel (which was a freshwater eel). So, with today's moray from ACPC, that means species from Muraenidae make up half of all the eels in the franchise (that I know of, as of writing).

The moray in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp was available throughout the Fall of 2022 and then again in Fall 2024. Maybe it will come back this coming Fall 2025?

What I find funny is that this moray eel is meant to be the Kidako Moray, which is the species present in ACNH, New Leaf, and City Folk, but like. It's a bad take and way too ambiguous. It's lazy - I know you can do better, Nintendo. And I know that it *should* be the Kidako, considering the Kidako is an important food fish in Japan and it makes sense they would continue on with the same species. But. We know that sometimes that isn't true. Nintendo can do whatever it wants, and that means I will, too. LMAO

A yellow-bodied moray eel with brown spots is actually a popular look among morays. The family has 200 species, and of those I found quite a few that could be even better represented by the ACPC sprite than the Kidako. For example, the Freshwater Moray (Gymnothorax polyuranodon) looks much more like the sprite.

Image from fishkeeper.co.uk

The Freshwater Moray is actually a unique species of moray that can survive in fresh, brackish, or saltwater, so the fact that ACPC's moray is found at Saltwater Shores doesn't count this guy out. Its native range is in extremely shallow water from Sri Lanka to the northern coast of Australia. It's thought to be catadromous, meaning that it goes out to sea to spawn. It's the opposite of what salmon do, but seems to be a theme among eels. So, yeah, it's a really good candidate.

But we also have the Spotted Snake Eel (Scuticaria tigrina), also called the Tiger Moray. This one is also shallow water, but only in saltwater throughout the Indo-Pacific to Hawaii and also around the west coast of Mexico to Panama. The spots on this one are more blotchy, but they're big and round and look brown on some individuals, so this one is a candidate for species rep here too.

By zsispeo - Flickr: Scuticaria tigrina, CC BY-SA 2.0

Another candidate could be the Laced or Honeycomb Moray (Gymnothorax favagineus). Its also native to the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea to Southern Japan and the Great Barrier Reef.

By jon hanson from london, UK - honeycomb moray eel, CC BY-SA 2.0

And still, we have the Fimbriated Moray (Gymnothorax fimbriatus), another candidate of the Indo-Pacific, from Madagascar to Polynesia, and from south Japan to New Caledonia. As with many morays, they are reef-dwellers and are nocturnal, coming out at night to feed on squid and fish.

Image from scuba.spanglers.com

And the last one I want to mention is the Giant Moray (Gymnothorax javanicus). This species is the largest of the morays in terms of weight, although 10ft/3m is not a small length either. It is also a denizen of the coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea to Hawaii and everything in between, including Japan's southern islands. It is known to cooperatively and mutually hunt with the Roving Coral Grouper. This is a rare inter-species cooperative hunt in which the animals bob their heads at each other to start the hunt. It's pretty incredible. We do, sometimes, see relations like this in other species, like that between coyotes and badgers. In both these relationships, the slender, burrowing partner can flush out hiding prey from its burrow into the waiting maw of their larger, quicker partner.

Moray eels are so cool, but I've covered them so much, I kinda just wanted to do a slide show of just a few really cool members. Head back up to the links to learn more about them and other Anguilliformes.

And there you have it! Fascinating stuff, no?

[heraldryandemblemwars]

Armoji Heraldry Wars: Round 3, Bracket 1

Blazon of Charles’s arms: Argent between two feathers Gules a popinjay with dexter foot raised Azure, membered, beaked, and collared Gules, in base two bars wavy Azure.

Blazon of Alex’s arms: Argent, a saltire purpure surmounted by a plate fimbriated purpure and charged with a penguin proper displayed overt.

[valteil]

Fimbriated moray and cardinalfish

[spiderton]

holy moray (naughtyfins but shes a fimbriated moray eel. and purity too i guess)

[eelposting]

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[txttletale]

Is Te W(h)akaminenga o Nga Rangatiratanga o Nga Hapu o Nu Tireni flag a hood Māori flag?

im sorry buit i hate the fimbriation and the cross within a cross. one cross on any flag is bad enough and now i gotta look at two of em. fucked up

[cinqueform]

Twelve: Cool

Or, two piles reversed sable above a crescent sable; overall a chief or fimbriated sable

😎😎😎

[erlandious]

Sooo guess which campaign is running again