I was snorkeling at a Marine Sanctuary in the Philippines recently. It was spectacular. One of the most beautiful things I saw was a white eel decorated with a complex black pattern. The pattern was hexagons in a honeycomb configuration, embellished with little curlicues. I did google image searches for “eel black white pattern” and “moray black white pattern” and went through several pages of images without finding a match for the thing I saw. I would like to know what to to call the critter I saw, and having a picture of it would be nice.
Couldn’t be a snowflake moray? The problem is, morays can be pretty varied patternwise, within a species.
Yes, what I saw was probably an extraordinary example of a snowflake moray. This one is kinda sorta like what I saw.
Thank you. That was fast!