Caribbean chestnut moray

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Caribbean chestnut moray
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Enchelycore
Species: E. carychroa
Binomial name
Enchelycore carychroa
Böhlke & Böhlke, 1976

The Caribbean chestnut moray, Enchelycore carychroa, is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the western Atlantic from Bermuda, southern Florida, the Bahamas, and the western Gulf of Mexico to Brazil, at depths of between 1 and 20 m. Their length is up to 34 cm.

The Caribbean chestnut moray inhabits coral and rocky reefs.

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