Bicolor false moray
Species of fish
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The bicolor false moray[2] (Chlopsis bicollaris) is an eel in the family Chlopsidae.[3] It was described by George S. Myers and Charles Barkley Wade in 1941, originally under the genus Garmanichthys.[4] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from around the Galapagos Islands in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Males are known to reach a maximum total length of 20 cm.[3]
| Bicolor false moray | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Chlopsidae |
| Genus: | Chlopsis |
| Species: | C. bicollaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Chlopsis bicollaris (Myers & Wade, 1941) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Due to the species' endemicity to the Galapagos Islands and its 1200-km2-area of occupancy, the IUCN redlist currently lists the bicolor false moray as Near Threatened.[5]