Sieve-patterned moray eel

Sieve-patterned moray eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Elopomorpha
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species: G. cribroris
Binomial name
Gymnothorax cribroris
Whitley, 1932

The sieve-patterned moray eel (Gymnothorax cribroris) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean around eastern Australia.[1] It was first named by Whitley in 1932,[1] and is also commonly known as the sieve moray, brown-flecked reef eel, brown-flecked moray, or the Australian moray.[2]

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