Snowflake-patched moray eel

Snowflake-patched moray eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Elopomorpha
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species: G. niphostigmus
Binomial name
Gymnothorax niphostigmus
Hong Ming Chen, K. T. Shao & C. T. Chen, 1996

The snowflake-patched moray (Gymnothorax niphostigmus) is a moray eel found in the northwest Pacific Ocean around Taiwan.[1] [2] It was first named by Chen, Shao, and Chen in 1996.[2]

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