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Giant morays grow especially large among moray eels.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Giant moray
- Scientific name
- Gymnothorax javanicus
- Japanese name
- ドクウツボ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Gymnothorax
A moray eel that lives from the Ogasawara and Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Tanegashima, Yakushima, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the Indo-Pacific
Where the Giant moray has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ドクウツボ
- 简体中文
- 爪哇裸胸鳝
- 繁體中文
- 爪哇裸胸鯙
- 한국어
- 대왕곰치
- Español
- Morena gigante
- Français
- Murène javanaise
- Deutsch
- Riesenmuräne
- Português (Brasil)
- Moreia-gigante
- Italiano
- Murena gigante
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Belut Moray Raksasa
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá chình moray khổng lồ
- Русский
- Яванский гимноторакс
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ドクウツボChecked: 2026-11-04
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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