Chlopsidae

Black-nostril false moray

Kaupichthys atronasus

Twelve Centimeters Ray of the Pacific Ocean

• Black
• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Anguilliform
• Small
• Tropical fish

The black-nostril false moray, blacknose false moray or blacknose reef eel (Kaupichthys atronasus), is an eel in the family Chlopsidae. It was described by Leonard Peter Schultz in 1953. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from throughout the Indo-Pacific, including the Chagos Islands, Samoa, the Ryukyu Islands, the southern Great Barrier Reef, and Micronesia.