Lateral view of head and cephalic pores of Gymnothorax tamilnaduensis sp. nov. (holotype, NBFGR/MURGTAM). Supraorbital pores (SO) – Blue closed dots, Infraorbital pores (IO) – Green, Mandibular pores (M) – Red, Branchial pores (B) – Black; DFO – dorsal-fin origin, PN – Posterior nostril, AN – Anterior nostril, GO – Gill opening.

 
 
  Part of: Kodeeswaran P, Kantharajan G, Mohapatra A, Ajith Kumar TT, Kumar Sarkar U (2023) A new short brown unpatterned moray eel (Anguilliformes, Muraenidae) from the southeast coast of India, Bay of Bengal. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(1): 253-260. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.99.100461