Blue ribbon ribbon may given to the champion and second-place (or reserve) champion. Blue ribbon The blue ribbon is a symbol of high quality. The association comes from The Blue Riband, a prize awarded for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by passenger liners and, prior to that from Cordon Bleu, which referred to the blue ribbon worn by a particular order of knights. The spelling "blue riband" is still encountered in most English-speaking countries, but in the United States, the term was altered to "blue ribbon", and ribbons of this color came to be awarded for first place in certain
Ribbon eel Ribbon eel The ribbon eel ("Rhinomuraena quaesita"), also known as the leaf-nosed moray eel or bernis eel, is a species of moray eel, the only member of the genus "Rhinomuraena". What is now known as "R. quaesita" also includes the former "R. amboinensis". "R. quaesita" was used for blue ribbon eels and "R. amboinensis" for black ribbon eels, but these are now recognized as the same species. The ribbon eel is found in lagoons and reefs in the Indo-Pacific ocean, ranging from East Africa to southern Japan, Australia and French Polynesia. Although generally placed in the moray eel family Muraenidae,