The brown-spotted moray (''Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus'') 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

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 ...

and

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

s.''Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus''
at www.fishbase.org. It was first named by Schultz in 1953 and is also commonly known as the freckled moray.''Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus''
at www.fishbase.org.

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Fishes of Australia : ''Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus''
Gymnothorax Fish described in 1953 Taxa named by Leonard Peter Schultz {{Muraenidae-stub