{"id":6759,"date":"2023-03-28T04:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:19:43","slug":"moray-eel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/moray-eel\/","title":{"rendered":"Moray Eel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Moray eel:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Moray eels or Muraenidae are a family of eels <strong>found worldwide<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They have small eyes and rely primarily on their highly developed sense of smell to ambush prey. Their body is mostly patterned.<\/li>\n<li>Moray eels <strong>live in shallow water <\/strong>among reefs and rocks in <strong>all tropical and subtropical seas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Moray eels can be found in both <strong>freshwater and saltwater environments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are distinguished by two types of jaws: regular (oral) jaws with large teeth and the pharyngeal jaw (which drags prey inside the eel&#8217;s stomach).<\/li>\n<li>The newly discovered species has been named after Tamil Nadu as <strong>Gymnothorax tamilnaduensis<\/strong> with common name as Tamil Nadu brown moray.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the role of pharyngeal jaws in Eels?<\/h3>\n<p>Once prey is secured in the eel&#8217;s oral jaws, a second set of toothy jaws (known as the pharyngeal jaws) located behind the eel&#8217;s skull lunges forward, advancing along almost the full length of its skull, to snatch and deliver the prey to the eel&#8217;s esophagus for swallowing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/new-species-of-moray-eel-discovered-off-cuddalore-coast\/article66663676.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New species of Moray eel discovered off the Cuddalore coast named after Tamil Nadu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moray eels or Muraenidae are a family of eels found worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}