Elegant moray eel

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