Anarchias leucurus
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Anarchias leucurus is a moray eel
found in the Pacific Ocean
. It was first named by Snyder in 1904 as Uropterygius leucurus, and is commonly known as the Snyder's moray, fine-spotted moray, or the finespot moray. It is thought to be the smallest species of moray, and may actually represent several different species or subspecies.
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 the 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...
. It was first named by Snyder in 1904 as Uropterygius leucurus, and is commonly known as the Snyder's moray, fine-spotted moray, or the finespot moray. It is thought to be the smallest species of moray, and may actually represent several different species or subspecies.