My god, my apologies, i had forgotten on just how important even the teeth were to find a species!
Yeah, pics are in limited supply - for more comparison to be safe (though I agree it doesn't necessarily look right; the texture of the skin/pattern looks slightly off to me):
Indeed! The first picture does look like it!
I really appreciate the time which was taken i cant believe how long that must've taken, at first I thought that it was a gymnothorax which was my bad and hence separated it from the other 2 eels (white eye and highfin) to keep them from harming each other but it seems that they can all live in the same tank now! I literally spent 2 classes just trying to look through all the gymnothorax species Lol, the closest color to the gymnothorax i had come across was what I believe to be a gymnothorax breedeni and a gymnothorax boroensis
Haha, yeah, knowing where it's from helps narrow it down a lot (I typically look through the WoRMS database's distribution maps for the various species and eliminate the ones not from the region or extremely unlikely to be found there; that cuts down a lot of the time I'd spend searching).
I apologize for having to trouble you again but is there any video or a tool to learn on how to find species or the types of species which live in a certain ocean?
I know there are books, databases, and scholarly articles that try to catalogue the species of certain oceans, but none are perfect (most are missing a large number of species, or are relatively comprehensive with the more common kinds of critters but lack pictures/details on the individual species), and most require you to have at least a rough idea of what family/genus it may be from in the first place.
