Enigmatic Moray Eel
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''Gymnothorax enigmaticus'', the enigmatic moray, tiger moray or banded moray,''Gymnothorax enigmaticus''
at www.fishbase.org. 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
Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five 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 bounded by the cont ...
and Indian oceans.''Gymnothorax enigmaticus''
at www.fishbase.org.
It was first named by McCosker and Randall in 1982,


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Fishes of Australia : ''Gymnothorax enigmaticus''
enigmaticus Fish described in 1982 {{muraenidae-stub