Brown-spotted moray eel

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Brown-spotted moray eel
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species:
G. fuscomaculatus
Binomial name
Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus

The brown-spotted moray (Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [2] It was first named by Schultz in 1953 [2] and is also commonly known as the freckled moray. [3]

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References

  1. Smith, D.G.; McCosker, J.; Tighe, K. (2019). "Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T195732A2409682. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T195732A2409682.en . Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus at www.fishbase.org.