Uropterygius macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1864)

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Uropterygius macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1864) .

Largehead Moray, Longhead Moray, or Needle-tooth Moray. To 49 cm (19.2 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to at least Taiwan ( Ho et al. 2015); Punta Marquez (23°56.8’N, 110°52.2’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru ( Robertson and Allen 2002), including Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: intertidal to at least 15 m (49 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Smith et al. 2019).