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Also Known As	moray eel • Muraenidae

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Moray eel (Gymnothorax javanicus).

Illustration showing an adult moray eel, Gymnothorax (family Muraenidae), with a long, greenish, snake-like body above a transparent, leaf-shaped larval stage.

Illustration showing adult and larval forms of various eel species, including Nemichthys, Cyema, Anguilla, Gymnothorax, and Conger, with adults on the left and their transparent, leaf-shaped larvae on the right.

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