Canton Island moray

Anarchias cantonensis

Crisp pale stars scatter across its brown body

Canton Island moray is a marine fish of Indo-West Pacific. The species occupies reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 21.9 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: True Eels
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Anarchias
Maximum length: 21.9 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: tropical, from central Indian Ocean in the west to the Phoenix and Line Islands in the east; southernmost records from about 21°S in Tonga, northernmost from about 19°N in the Philippines. Not recorded anywhere west of the Maldives, although it reaches as far as Palmyra I. in the east and does not occur in the Hawaiian Islands nor anywhere in French Polynesia.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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