''Gymnothorax microspila'' is a moray eel found in the eastern

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 ...

, around the East Indian Archipelago.''Gymnothorax microspila''
at www.fishbase.org. It was first named by

Albert Günther Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive re ...

in 1870.

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microspila Fish described in 1870 Taxa named by Albert Günther {{muraenidae-stub