''Enchelycore kamara'' is a

moray eel Moray eels, or Muraenidae (), are a family (biology), family of eels whose members are found worldwide. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera which are almost exclusively Marine (ocean), marine, but several species are regu ...

found in

coral reefs A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups. ...

in the central

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

. It was described by

Eugenia Brandt Böhlke Eugenia (Genie) Brandt Böhlke (Birth name, ''née'' Brandt; June 27, 1928 – February 14, 2001) was an American Ichthyology, ichthyologist who published over thirty-five academic papers about moray eels. She was also an active collaborator with ...

and

James Erwin Böhlke James Erwin Böhlke (1930–1982) was an American ichthyologist. From 1954 to 1982, he was curator of the Department of Ichthyology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (today the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University). ...

in 1980, and is commonly known as the dark-spotted moray. It can grow to

total length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology. Overall length Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured f ...

References

kamara Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish described in 1980 Taxa named by James Erwin Böhlke {{muraenidae-stub