Bicolor false moray

Not to be confused with Bicolored false moray (Chlopsis bicolor).

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]
Garmanichthys bicollaris Myers & Wade, 1941

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]