WoRMS taxon details
Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829)
AphiaID: 158584
AphiaID: 158584
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Anguilliformes (Order) > Muraenidae (Family) > Muraeninae (Subfamily) > Gymnothorax (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Gymnothorax Bloch, 1795 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Gymnothorax albimentis (Evermann & Marsh, 1900) Gymnothorax concolor (Abbott, 1860) Gymnothorax flavoscriptus Poey, 1876 Gymnothorax moringua (Cuvier, 1829) (misspelling) Gymnothorax picturatus Poey, 1880 Gymnothorax rostratus Agassiz, 1831 Lycodontis albimentis Evermann & Marsh, 1900 Lycodontis moringa (Cuvier, 1829) Muraena moringa Cuvier, 1829 Muraena punctata Gronow, 1854 Murenophis caramuru Castelnau, 1855 Murenophis curvilineata Castelnau, 1855 Sidera flavoscripta (Poey, 1876) (misspelling) Sidera moringa (Cuvier, 1829) Thyrsoidea concolor Abbott, 1860 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 17 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: from North Carolina, USA and Bermuda to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean to southeastern Brazil [details] Habitat: benthic [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158584 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158584 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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