The pygmy moray or Robin's moray
Common names for ''Gymnothorax robinsi''
at www.fishbase.org. (''Gymnothorax robinsi'') 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.
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in the western 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 robinsi''](_blank)
at www.fishbase.org. It was first named 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 ...
in 1997,
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pygmy moray
pygmy moray
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