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MURAENA , the name of an eel common in the Mediterranean, and highly esteemed by the ancient Romans; it was afterwards Muraena pitta, from the Indo-Pacific. applied to the whole genus of fishes to which the Mediterranean species belongs, and which is abundantly represented in tropical and sub-tropical seas, especially in rocky parts or on coral reefs. Some ninety species are known. In the majority a long fin runs from the head along the back, round the tail to the vent,but all are destitute of pectoral and ventral fins. The skin is scaleless and smooth, in many species ornamented with varied and bright colours, so that these fishes are frequently mistaken for snakes
prey (which chiefly consists of other fishes) but also to inflict serious, and sometimes dangerous, wounds on its enemies. It attacks persons who approach its places of concealment in shallow water, and is feared by fishermen.Some of the tropical Muraenas exceed a length of to ft., but most of the species, among them the Mediterranean species, attain to only half that length. The latter, the " morena " of the Italians and the Muraena helena
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