Banded mud moray eel

Banded mud moray eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Elopomorpha
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species: G. chlamydatus
Binomial name
Gymnothorax chlamydatus
Snyder, 1908

The banded mud moray (Gymnothorax chlamydatus) is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean.[1] It was first named by Snyder in 1908,[1] because of dark bands along its body.[2]

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