Uropterygius nagoensis
Encyclopedia
Uropterygius nagoensis is a moray eel
found in the western Pacific Ocean
. It was first named by Kiyotaka Hatooka in 1984, and is commonly known as the Nago snake moray.
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 western 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 Kiyotaka Hatooka in 1984, and is commonly known as the Nago snake moray.