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  Name Caribbean chestnut moray
  Regnum Animalia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Actinopterygii
  Ordo Anguilliformes
  Familia Muraenidae
  Genus '' Enchelycore ''
  Species '''''E carychroa'''''
  Binomial ''Enchelycore carychroa''
  Binomial Authority Böhlke & Böhlke, 1976


The Caribbean chestnut moray, ''Enchelycore carychroa'', is a Moray Eel of the Family Muraenidae , found in the western Atlantic from Bermuda , southern Florida , the Bahamas , and the western Gulf Of Mexico to Brazil , at depths of between 1 and 20 M . Their length is up to 34 Cm .

The Caribbean chestnut moray inhabits coral and rocky reefs.


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