What type of moray?

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It doesn’t look like spotted moray as its pots are irregular. I couldn’t find such pattern in Reef Fish Identification Florida Caribbean Bahamas book by Paul Humann & Ned Deloach. You may find the Indo-Pacific eel lost in Caribbean. :D

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May have snuck through the Panama Canal! :thumb:
 
Spotted moray eels have black background with lots of regular pattern of white spots throughout their entire bodies. Stewart moray has greenish yellow background with irregular black spots, much like Indo-Pacific fimbriated moray.
 
Spotted moray eels have black background with lots of regular pattern of white spots throughout their entire bodies. Stewart moray has greenish yellow background with irregular black spots, much like Indo-Pacific fimbriated moray.
Look up the spotted moray on fishbase.org, the definitive site for scientists. You'll find a lot more variations than what you are describing.
 
Saw this eel in a coral head with 2 other eels and some type of worm looking creature. Is it an albino or something else?
Interesting, to me it almost looks to be a hybrid cross of a Spotted Moray and a Chain Moray. The shape of the head resembles that of a Chain, where as the color looks to be that of a Spotted.
 
Look up the spotted moray on fishbase.org, the definitive site for scientists. You'll find a lot more variations than what you are describing.

How to find them? I only found 1, Spotted moray in fishbase.org

Gymnothorax moringa summary page

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