Gymnothorax cribroris
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Gymnothorax cribroris is a moray eel
found in coral reefs in the western Pacific ocean
, around eastern Australia
. It was first named by Whitley in 1932, and is commonly known as the Sieve-patterned moray, Sieve-patterned eel, Sieve moray, Brown-flecked reef eel, Brown-flecked moray, or the Australian moray.
Moray eel
Moray eels are cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. The approximately 200 species in 15 genera are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water and a few, for example the freshwater moray can sometimes be found in freshwater...
found in coral reefs in the western Pacific ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
, around eastern Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It was first named by Whitley in 1932, and is commonly known as the Sieve-patterned moray, Sieve-patterned eel, Sieve moray, Brown-flecked reef eel, Brown-flecked moray, or the Australian moray.