Yellow-edged moray

Yellow-edged moray
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Gymnothorax
Species:
G. flavimarginatus
Binomial name
Gymnothorax flavimarginatus
(Rüppell, 1830)
Synonyms
  • Muraena flavimarginata Rüppell, 1830
  • Lycodontis flavimarginatus (Rüppell, 1830)
  • Gymnothorax thalassopterus Jenkins, 1903
  • Gymnothorax viridipinnis Bliss, 1883
  • Lycodontis lemayi Smith, 1949
  • Muraena batuensis Bleeker, 1856–57
  • Muraena mauritiana Kaup, 1856
  • Muraena viridipinna Seale, 1917

The yellow-edged moray, also known as yellow-margin(ed) moray, leopard moray, and speckled moray, (Gymnothorax flavimarginatus) is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the Indo-Pacific Oceans at depths to 150 m (500 ft).

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