The Taiwanese barbel moray,
Common names of ''Cirrimaxilla formosa''
at www.fishbase.org. ''Cirrimaxilla formosa'', is a species
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of eel
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in the family Muraenidae
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 ...
, and the only member of the genus ''Cirrimaxilla''.[Chen, H.-M. and K.-T. Shao, 1995 ef. 22201''New eel genus, Cirrimaxilla, and description of the type species, Cirrimaxilla formosa (Pisces: Muraenidae) from southern Taiwan.'' Bulletin of Marine Science v. 57 (no. 2): 328-332.] It is found only in Pingtung County, Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. The holotype
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, a female, measures a total length
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Overall length
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of .
References
Muraenidae
Fish of Taiwan
Endemic fauna of Taiwan
Monotypic fish genera
Fish described in 1995
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