Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Morena gigante (Gymnothorax javanicus), Ras Katy, Sharm el-Sheij, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD 83.jpg

File:Morena gigante (Gymnothorax javanicus), Ras Katy, Sharm el-Sheij, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD, DD 83.jpg, featured

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish#Family_:_Muraenidae_(Moray_Eels)
•  Info Giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) surrounded by net fire coral (Millepora dichotoma), Ras Katy, Sharm el-Sheikh, Red Sea, Egypt. This species of marine fish is the largest moray eel in terms of body mass (the slender giant moray is the largest in terms of body length, though). The giant moray can reach up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in length and 30 kg (66 lb) in weight. While juveniles are tan in color with large black spots, adults have black specks that grade into leopard-like spots behind the head. It's widespread in the Indo-Pacific region, being found from eastern coast of Africa, Red Sea included, until the Pitcairn group, Hawaiian islands and also Polynesia. North to south Japan and south to New Caledonia, Fiji and the Austral Islands. It lives in lagoons and on the outer slopes of coral reefs. During the day, it sits sheltered in crevices between 1 and 50 meters deep. The giant moray is carnivorous (feeds on fish and occasionally on crustaceans) and nocturnal, hunting its prey within the reef. It is known to engage in cooperative hunting with the roving coral grouper (Plectropomus pessuliferus). These two fish species are complementary hunters: While the eel hunts in the reef, it may scare prey up and out of the reef, leaving them to be eaten by the grouper. Similarly, the grouper hunting above the reef may cause prey to attempt to seek refuge in the reef, where the moray may ambush them. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 19:30, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 19:30, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 04:17, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Nicely framed by the coral. You should put all that description on the file page, where it'll be easier to find. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:35, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

•  Done, sometimes takes a few days longer, but I always use the description here for the image description page. Thanks. Poco a poco (talk) 06:31, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 06:07, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:06, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 15:51, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 06:09, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 08:36, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 13:13, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Famberhorst (talk) 15:41, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose Unfortunately for me it is too well framed by the coral ... I thought at first it was supposed to be the subject, then read the description and realized there was a fish there as well. Daniel Case (talk) 18:59, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

  I don't understand the real issue here. Daniel Case. You would have supported the image as FP without the moray eel? I find the frame good as it guides the attention to the center where you can see the head of this huge fish. On ther other side, I'm with you that the coral does play an important role in the image so I identified it and added it to the description page and also to the description here. Poco a poco (talk) 17:27, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

  The fish is rather neutral in color and we don't see all of it ... it doesn't jump out at you as well as it should. Daniel Case (talk) 18:18, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

•  Support Compelling composition makes this one of your best underwater pics Cmao20 (talk) 07:55, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Princess Rosalina 💄 452487 08:32, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 20:34, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 23:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Fish#Family_:_Muraenidae_(Moray_Eels)