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title: "Peppered Moray"
description: "Gymnothorax pictus — Vissen. Gymnothorax pictus, the painted moray, paintspotted moray or peppered moray, is a moray eel."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/peppered-moray
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Peppered Moray

> Gymnothorax pictus — Vissen. Gymnothorax pictus, the painted moray, paintspotted moray or peppered moray, is a moray eel.

- Scientific name: *Gymnothorax pictus*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1740
- Wikidata: [Q2181528](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2181528)
- iNaturalist taxon: [123525](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/123525)

## Names

- en: Peppered Moray
- de: Gesprenkelte Muräne
- es: Morena pecas pintura
- fr: Murène poivrée
- pl: Murena pieprzowa

## Countries with the most observations

US (675), MV (95), ID (87), PF (73), FJ (67), KE (56), AU (45), TW (38), GU (33), ZA (33), IO (31), JP (31)

## Summary

Gymnothorax pictus, the painted moray, paintspotted moray or peppered moray, is a moray eel. The Chamorro name of the eel is títugi.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnothorax_pictus

## Photo

![Peppered Moray](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/peppered-moray/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Kranz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24365959

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/peppered-moray?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).