{"id":5165,"date":"2012-02-15T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2019-01-06T04:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:24:06","slug":"panamic-green-moray-eel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/panamic-green-moray-eel.html","title":{"rendered":"Panamic Green Moray Eel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photo of Panamic Green Moray Eel, <em>Gymnothorax castaneus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While I was in Mexico&#8217;s beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/sea_of_cortez_photos.html\">Sea of Cortez<\/a> doing some diving last November, I spent time photographing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/panamic_green_moray_eel_photo.html\">Panamic Green Moray eels<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Gymnothorax_castaneus\">Gymnothorax castaneus<\/a><\/em>).  These eels are quite common, often found underneath large boulders and overhangs.  They are typically content to remain in their holes, extending just their heads outside, but once in a while they will swim freely across the reef and only then is their large size easily seen.  These are big eels!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=27466\" title=\"Panamic Green Moray Eel, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mex...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/panamic-green-moray-eel-image-27466-585663.jpg\" alt=\"Panamic Green Moray Eel, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, Gymnothorax castaneus\" title=\"Panamic Green Moray Eel, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, Gymnothorax castaneus\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Panamic Green Moray Eel, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=27466\">27466<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/panamic_green_moray_eell_photo.html\" title=\"Panamic Green Moray Eell photos\">Panamic Green Moray Eell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Gymnothorax_castaneus\" title=\"Gymnothorax castaneus photos\"><i>Gymnothorax castaneus<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=sea_of_cortez&amp;state=baja_california&amp;country=mexico\">Sea of Cortez<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=baja_california&amp;country=mexico\">Baja California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=mexico\">Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of Panamic Green Moray Eel, Gymnothorax castaneus While I was in Mexico&#8217;s beautiful Sea of Cortez doing some diving last November, I spent time photographing the Panamic Green Moray eels (Gymnothorax castaneus). These eels are quite common, often found underneath large boulders and overhangs. They are typically content to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,89,110,122,123],"tags":[208,241,281,314,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-5165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-marine-life","8":"category-mexico","9":"category-sea-of-cortez","10":"category-underwater-life","11":"category-underwater-photography","12":"tag-baja-california","13":"tag-fish","14":"tag-mexico","15":"tag-sea-of-cortez","16":"tag-underwater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}