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This new species of moray eel belongs to the small, brown unpatterned group with the combination following of characters: dorsal-fin origin before gill opening, pre-anal length 2.12.2, jaw pores with black rim, two branchial pores, predorsal vertebrae 3, preanal vertebrae 57 and total vertebrae 135136, teeth smooth, three large fang-like median intermaxillary teeth, biserial maxillary and uniserial vomerine teeth, and dentary teeth biserial, with two teeth on each side in the second row of the dentary.
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A medium-sized, uniform brown moray with moderately elongate body, depth at gill opening 15.017.1 and at anus 16.0
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). Teeth smooth, not serrated; intermaxillary teeth 1112 on each side with alternate small and large teeth as shown in
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strong, curved median intermaxillary teeth placed almost equidistance from each other; maxillary teeth biserial, 1920 on each side of outer row and
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each side of inner row; vomerine teeth uniserial with 910 teeth; lower jaw teeth with outer row of 2628 teeth on each side and 2 inner teeth on each side near anterior end (
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). Head pores typical, supraorbital pores 3; infraorbital pores 4; mandibular pores 6; branchial pores 2, located above and before gill opening (
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). All head pores with black rim. Predorsal vertebrae 3, preanal vertebrae 57 and total vertebrae 135136.
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<emphasis id="ACABEA9EFFC7FF9A84F8FA2A21114CBF" bold="true" box="[151,269,1423,1448]" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
. Lateral view of head and head pores of
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<emphasis id="ACABEA9EFFC7FF9A86C5FA2A23D14CB0" box="[682,973,1423,1447]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Gymnothorax andamanensis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="B79857E5FFC7FF9A87BCFA3524384CBF" box="[979,1060,1424,1448]" pageId="2" pageNumber="191" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<emphasis id="ACABEA9EFFC7FF9A84A8FA7321BC4CE7" box="[199,416,1494,1520]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Colour when fresh:</emphasis>
body dark brown dorsally and slightly pale brown ventrally; (
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&amp;
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), both dorsal and anal fins body colour; eye ring whitish, jaw pores with black rim. When preserved, body uniformly brown, eye ring white.
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<emphasis id="ACABEA9EFFC7FF9A84A8F9E4217D4F4B" bold="true" box="[199,353,1601,1628]" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Distribution.</emphasis>
Presently known only from the South Andaman,
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.
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<emphasis id="ACABEA9EFFC7FF9A84A8F9C321524F97" bold="true" box="[199,334,1638,1664]" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species is named “
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<emphasis id="ACABEA9EFFC7FF9A8638F9C322EB4F97" box="[599,759,1638,1664]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">andamanensis</emphasis>
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” with reference to the
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from where it is collected.
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