Gymnothorax bathyphilus
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Gymnothorax bathyphilus is a deep water
moray eel
found in the south Pacific Ocean
, around Easter Island
. It was first named by Randall and McCosker in 1975, and reaches a maximum length of about 76 centimetres. The type specimen was taken at a depth of 250 meters.
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moray eel
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 south Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
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, around Easter Island
Easter Island
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...
. It was first named by Randall and McCosker in 1975, and reaches a maximum length of about 76 centimetres. The type specimen was taken at a depth of 250 meters.