The elegant moray (''Gymnothorax elegans''), or Goldsborough's moray eel,Common names for ''Gymnothorax elegans''
at www.fishbase.org. is a moray eel found in

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in the Pacific and

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s.''Gymnothorax elegans''
at www.fishbase.org. It was first named by Bliss in 1883.

References

elegans Fish described in 1883 {{muraenidae-stub