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Sieve-patterned moray eel

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Sieve-patterned moray eel
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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]

References

  1. ^ a b Gymnothorax cribroris at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ^ Common names for Gymnothorax cribroris at www.fishbase.org.