Gymnothorax prolatus
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Gymnothorax prolatus is a moray eel
found in the northwest Pacific ocean, around Taiwan
. It was first named by Sasaki and Amaoka in 1991, and can measure up to approximately 40 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...
. It was first named by Sasaki and Amaoka in 1991, and can measure up to approximately 40 centimetres.