Gymnothorax Atolli
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The atoll moray eel (''Gymnothorax atolli'') 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
coral reefs A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of Colony (biology), colonies of coral polyp (zoology), polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, wh ...
in the eastern central
Pacific 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 continen ...
Ocean.''Gymnothorax atolli''
at www.fishbase.org.
It was first named by Pietschmann in 1935.Common names for ''Gymnothorax atolli''
at www.fishbase.org.


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atoll moray eel Fish of Hawaii atoll moray eel Taxa named by Viktor Pietschmann {{Muraenidae-stub