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, around

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. It was first named by Eugenia Brandt Böhlke and

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in 2001. It lives in moderate-temperature, marine habitat; it is a

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. The maximum length discovered was a female at 88.2 cm long.

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austrinus Fish described in 2001 {{muraenidae-stub