Habitat/Distribution
The eel's depth range is 0.4m-750m while the temperature range is 6.975°C – 27.717°C. The speckled worm eel is a benthic species. It lives in tropical marine and brackish habitats that range from seagrass beds and mangroves to offshore reefs. They are found in the Western Atlantic around the island of Bermuda and from North Carolina to Brazil and throughout the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies, and the coast of Central America, and all through the Caribbean.
Reproduction
This species makes significant seasonal migrations. They migrate to the sea to spawn. They have leptocephalus larvae. Usually only juveniles are found inshore. They appear along the coast between December and May from drifting in from offshore spawning areas.
Other information
They are caught as baitfish along the northern Brazilian coast using ichthyotoxic plants. Locomotion type: Balistiform Lobotes surinamensis and Thunnus thynnus thynnus feed on Myrophis punctatus.
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