Gymnothorax neglectus
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Gymnothorax neglectus is a moray eel
found in the northwest Pacific ocean, around Taiwan
and Japan
. It was first named by Tanaka in 1911, and reaches a maximum length of approximately 120 centimetres.
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 northwest Pacific ocean, around Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. It was first named by Tanaka in 1911, and reaches a maximum length of approximately 120 centimetres.