{"id":4204,"date":"2016-06-08T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:44:07","slug":"pic-of-the-day-chain-moray-eel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=4204","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the Day &#8211; Chain Moray Eel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4203\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4203\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4203\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4203\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/psP3073930.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Judy G&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E-M5MarkII&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1457362957&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright Awoosh.com&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;60&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chain Moray Eel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/psP3073930-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/psP3073930.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4203\" src=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/psP3073930.jpg\" alt=\"Chain Moray Eel\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/psP3073930.jpg 800w, http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/psP3073930-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/psP3073930-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ready for my close up.<\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of a Chain Moray Eel (<em>Echidna catenata<\/em>) that I captured in Roatan, Honduras. This variety of eel can grow up to 24 inches long. Although I couldn&#8217;t see the body of this one, as it was all tucked down into a coral head, I would guess that it was a juvenile &#8211; the head was not very large.<\/p>\n<p>Eels are fish &#8211; very looooooong fish. When I looked up this guy in my ID book, I was surprised to see how many varieties of eels there are in the Caribbean &#8211; at least ten types of moray eels, plus snake eels, garden eels, and conger eels. Who knew? I thought the tropical Pacific had the corner on the eel biodiversity thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready for my close up. This is a picture of a Chain Moray Eel (Echidna catenata) that I captured in Roatan, Honduras. This variety of eel can grow up to 24 inches long. Although I couldn&#8217;t see the body of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=4204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,62,13],"tags":[310,313,311,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}