AnimalsCoral Reef
Green moray Fun facts for kids
Gymnothorax funebris
The green moray lives on coral reefs in the warm Atlantic and eats fish, crabs and octopus, at night.
- Where it lives
- on coral reefs in the warm Atlantic
- What it eats
- fish, crabs and octopus, at night
- How big it is
- as long as a person is tall
Fun facts about the green moray
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
It has a second set of jaws hidden in its throat that shoot forward to grab food and pull it down.
The green moray is not really green! Yellow slime over its bluish brown skin makes it look green.
It opens and closes its mouth all the time, which looks scary, but it is only breathing.
Little cleaner shrimp and fish pick tiny pests off it, sometimes even from inside its mouth!
Its bendy body can slip into narrow holes and even tie itself into a loose knot.
Baby morays start out tiny, see-through and shaped like leaves, drifting along in the ocean.
It cannot see very well, so it sniffs out food with little tube-shaped nostrils on its snout.
It has no side fins at all, just one long fin running along its back and around its tail.
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I live in warm seas and spend my days tucked inside a hole in the reef.
I can't see very well, so I sniff out my food with little tube-shaped nostrils.
A second set of jaws hides in my throat and shoots forward to grab my food.
Tiny shrimp pick pests off me, sometimes even from inside my mouth.
I'm a long snaky fish, I look green, and I keep opening and closing my mouth.
Sammy might be thinking of a green moray.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the green moray in the Coral Reef adventure.
Play the Coral ReefComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
