WoRMS taxon details
Gymnothorax favagineus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
AphiaID: 217509
AphiaID: 217509
| 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 |
Enchelycore favagineus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Gymnothorax favagiensis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (misspelling) Gymnothorax favagineus isingteenus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Gymnothorax permistus (Smith, 1962) Gymnothorax pescadoris (non Jordan & Evermann, 1902) Gymnothorax tesselatus (Richardson, 1845) (misspelling) Gymnothorax tessellata (Richardson, 1845) Gymnothorax tessellatus (Richardson, 1845) Lycodontis favagineus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Lycodontis permistus Smith, 1962 Lycodontis tessellata (Richardson, 1845) Muraena tessellata Richardson, 1845 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Smith, J.L.B. & M.M. Smith (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. Grahamstown. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: Gon, O. (1996). Fifty years of fish systematics at the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 51: 45-78. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Gymnothorax favagineus isingteenus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 accepted as Gymnothorax favagineus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Makrostrotos Ho & Lin, 2006 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Makrostrotos acuminatus Ho & Lin, 2006 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Makrostrotos hamus Ho & Lin, 2006 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Pseudotaeniacanthus dentiferus Lin & Ho, 2008 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Pseudotaeniacanthus similis Lin & Ho, 2008 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Pseudotaeniacanthus conspicuus Lin & Ho, 2008 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits reef flats and outer reef slopes of continental reefs to over 35 m. One of the two largest of Indo-Pacific morays. Large adults may be aggressive (Ref. 9710). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217509 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Gymnothorax favagineus Bloch & Schneider, 1801. 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=217509 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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