Sieve-patterned moray eel

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Sieve-patterned moray eel
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species:
G. cribroris
Binomial name
Gymnothorax cribroris
Whitley, 1932

The sieve-patterned moray eel (Gymnothorax cribroris) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean and northern Australia. It was first named by Whitley in 1932 and is also commonly known as the sieve moray, brown-flecked reef eel, brown-flecked moray or the Australian moray.

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References

  1. Smith, D.G.; Tighe, K.; McCosker, J. (2019). "Gymnothorax cribroris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T195719A2407557. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T195719A2407557.en . Retrieved 10 January 2022.