Muraenidae

Banded mud moray

Gymnothorax chlamydatus

Sixty Centimeters Ray from Taiwanese Waters

• Black
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The banded mud moray (Gymnothorax chlamydatus) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean (Taiwan and Indonesia). It was first named by Snyder in 1908, because of dark bands along its body.