Anarchias Leucurus
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''Anarchias leucurus'' is a
moray eel Moray eels, or Muraenidae (), are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera which are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, and a few are f ...
found in the
Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...
.''Anarchia leucurus''
at www.fishbase.org.
It was first named by Snyder in 1904 as ''Uropterygius leucurus'', and is commonly known as Snyder's moray, the fine-spotted moray or the finespot moray. It is thought to be the smallest species of moray, and may actually represent several different species or subspecies.


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leucurus Fish described in 1904 Fish of the Pacific Ocean Taxa named by John Otterbein Snyder {{Muraenidae-stub