Elegant moray eel

Elegant moray eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Anguilliformes
Family:Muraenidae
Genus:Gymnothorax
Species: G. elegans
Binomial name
Gymnothorax elegans
Bliss, 1883
Synonyms

Lycodontis elegans (Bliss, 1883)

The elegant moray (Gymnothorax elegans), or Goldsborough's moray eel,[1] is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[2] It was first named by Bliss in 1883.[2]

References

  1. Common names for Gymnothorax elegans at www.fishbase.org.
  2. 1 2 Gymnothorax elegans at www.fishbase.org.


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