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Muraenidae
banded moray
Gymnothorax rueppelliae
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banded moray is a fish of Indo-Pacific. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 80 cm. Its body is an eel-like body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Gymnothorax
- Maximum length
- 80 cm
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa (south to Bazaruto Island, Mozambique, Ref. 33390 ) to the Hawaiian, Tuamoto, and Marquesan islands, north to the Ryukyus, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

