Brown-spotted moray eel

Brown-spotted moray eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Elopomorpha
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species: G. fuscomaculatus
Binomial name
Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus
(L. P. Schultz, 1953)

The brown-spotted moray (Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[1] It was first named by Schultz in 1953,[1] and is also commonly known as the freckled moray.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus at www.fishbase.org.


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