Brown speckled eel

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Brown speckled eel
FMIB 42392 Gymnothorax steindachneri Jordan & Evermann; after Steindachner.jpeg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species:
G. steindachneri
Binomial name
Gymnothorax steindachneri

The brown speckled eel or Steindachner's moray eel, [1] Gymnothorax steindachneri, is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the eastern central Pacific Ocean, around Hawaii. [2] It was first named by Jordan and Evermann in 1903. [2] It is rarely seen in the wild due to its aggressive nature. It will lie waiting for a passing animal, and then ambush it.

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