Muraena

For of the lanky fishes, the conger has no such egg, nor the muraena, and the eel has no egg at all. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The grey mullet is often found alive with its tail lopped off, and the conger with all that part of its body removed that lies to the rear of the vent; in the case of the mullet the injury is wrought by the basse, in that of the conger-eel by the muraena. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The muraena also hides, and the orphus or sea-perch, and the conger. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The braize, the sea-scorpion, the black conger, the muraena, and the piper or sea-cuckoo are found alike in shallow and deep waters. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The bonito has the gall-bladder stretched alongside the gut and equalling it in length, and often a double fold of it. others have the organ in the region of the gut; in some cases far off, in others near; as the fishing-frog, the elops, the synagris, the muraena, and the sword-fish. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Some of the lanky fishes have no fins at all, such as the muraena, nor gills articulated like those of other fish. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Some fishes are exclusively carnivorous, as the cartilaginous genus, the conger, the channa or Serranus, the tunny, the bass, the synodon or Dentex, the amia, the sea-perch, and the muraena. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The smyrus differs from the smyraena; for the muraena is mottled and weakly, whereas the smyrus is strong and of one uniform colour, and the colour resembles that of the pine-tree, and the animal has teeth inside and out. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The fish and shell-fish (John Dory, red mullet, cuttle-fish, lobster, whiting, muraena, and mussels) which compose it are served on toast. ❋ Algernon Bastard (1885)

To attempt an enumeration of the species of fish with which these seas abound would exceed my power, and I shall only mention briefly some of the most obvious; as the shark, hiyu (squalus); skate, ikan pari (raya); ikan mua (muraena); ikan chanak (gymnotus); ikan gajah (cepole); ikan karang or bonna (chaetodon), described by Mr. John Bell in Volume 82 of the Philosophical Transactions. ❋ William Marsden (1795)

(Be it observed that the muraena breeds at all seasons, but the hippurus only in the spring. ❋ Unknown (2002)