Blotch-necked moray eel

Blotch-necked moray eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Elopomorpha
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species: G. margaritophorus
Binomial name
Gymnothorax margaritophorus
Bleeker, 1864

The blotch-necked moray (Gymnothorax margaritophorus) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[1] It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1864,[1] and is also commonly known as the blackpearl moray, pearly moray, pearly reef-eel, or the trunk-eyed moray.[2]

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