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Caribbean Ocellated Moray
François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Other fish (coast and sea)

Caribbean Ocellated Moray

Gymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz, 1831

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishCaribbean Ocellated Moray
DutchGevlekte murene
SpanishMorena ocelada
Chinese眼点裸胸鳝
Scientific nameGymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz, 1831

About this species

Gymnothorax ocellatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. It was first named by Louis Agassiz in 1831, and is also commonly known as the blackedge moray, Caribbean ocellated moray, conger, ocellated moray, spotted moray, sawtooth moray, white-spotted moray, or yellow cong.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderAnguilliformes
FamilyMuraenidae
GenusGymnothorax

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