Dragon Moray Eel Enchelycore pardalis

The Dragon Moray Eel is also called the Leopard Moray as in its scientific name pardalis, but the Laced Moray, Gymnothorax favagineus, is also called Leopard and there is a Freshwater Leopard Moray, G. polyuranodon. The Dragon Moray is native to coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific, from the central Indian to the central Pacific Oceans and north to Japan and south to the Barrier Reef.

It grows to nearly a metre long. Smell is its primary sense. It has four nostrils, two of which are the "horns" on the forehead.

It is a nocturnal predator, with its cryptic spotted and barred patterns helping it to hide in rocks in the day. Prey is mainly fish and cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish, nautilus).