snowflake eel

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snowflake eel (plural snowflake eels)

  1. A snowflake moray (Echidna nebulosa).
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 68:
      The Snowflake eel, a kind of moray, is harmless if you leave it alone and refrain from drinking its blood (which is toxic).