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California morays mainly eat fish, although they are opportunistic predators whose diet also consists of invertebrate prey such as octopuses, lobsters, and shrimp. Interestingly, it appears that California morays will share habitat space with potential prey species, including both shrimp and lobsters. Although most fishes living in open environments can open their mouths wide enough to suck in prey, the small space the moray lives in prevents it from catching prey this way. Like other morays, California morays have a special set of pharyngeal jaws that allows prey to be transported from their mouths into their throats. As an additional aid to prey transport, they have a set of depressible teeth in the roof of their mouths that fold upward as prey is swallowed. They are considered a nocturnal hunter, due to their elusiveness in the daytime. The California Moray is thought to be primarily piscivorous, and appears to specialize in the kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus.