Gymnothorax bacalladoi
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Gymnothorax bacalladoi is a moray eel
of the family
Muraenidae, found only around the Canary Islands
in the eastern central Atlantic, at depths of between 17 and 605 m. Its length is up to 35 cm.
Moray eel
Moray eels are cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. The approximately 200 species in 15 genera are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water and a few, for example the freshwater moray can sometimes be found in freshwater...
of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Muraenidae, found only around the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
in the eastern central Atlantic, at depths of between 17 and 605 m. Its length is up to 35 cm.