Elegant moray

Gymnothorax elegans

Regional distribution
Marine fish
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Oceania
Anguilliform
Large

The elegant moray (Gymnothorax elegans), or Goldsborough's moray eel, is a moray eel found in deep water (90-450 meters) in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Bliss in 1883.

Class: Teleosts
Order: True Eels
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Maximum length: 79.2 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to Samoa, north to the Ogasawara Islands.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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