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Name : Gymnothorax flavimarginatus

Common Name : Walm
Class : Actinopterygii
Order : Anguilliformes
Family : Muraenidae
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Description

This species is characterised with yellowish body densely mottled with dark brown pattern, posterior margins of fins yellow-green and gill opening with a black blotch.


Size

Maximum length: 148.5 cm (TL), common length: 100-130 cm (TL)


Diet

Feeds on small bottom living fishes, crabs and cephalopods


Utilization

It is popular as an aquarium fish


Gears

Gillnet, trawl, trap