WoRMS taxon details
Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
217457 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217457)
accepted
Species
Anguilla fidjiensis Günther, 1870 · unaccepted
Anguilla hildebrandti Peters, 1881 · unaccepted (synonym)
Anguilla hildebrandti Sauvage, 1891 · unaccepted (ambiguous synonym)
Anguilla johannae Günther, 1867 · unaccepted
Anguilla labrosa Richardson, 1848 · unaccepted (synonym)
Anguilla marmolata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Anguilla mauritiana Bennett, 1831 · unaccepted
Muraena manillensis Bleeker, 1864 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1824-1825). Description des Poissons. Chapter IX. <em>In: Freycinet, L. de, Voyage autour du Monde...exécuté sur les corvettes de L. M.</em> 192-401 [1-328 in 1824; 329-616 in 1825], Atlas pls. 43-65., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40871183#page/204/mode/1up [details]
Description Inhabits deep rocky pools and is active at night, feeding on a wide range of prey, especially crabs, frogs and fish (Ref....
Description Inhabits deep rocky pools and is active at night, feeding on a wide range of prey, especially crabs, frogs and fish (Ref. 7248). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217457 on 2025-07-27
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1824-1825). Description des Poissons. Chapter IX. <em>In: Freycinet, L. de, Voyage autour du Monde...exécuté sur les corvettes de L. M.</em> 192-401 [1-328 in 1824; 329-616 in 1825], Atlas pls. 43-65., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40871183#page/204/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Anguilla johannae Günther, 1867) Playfair, R. L.; Günther, A. (1867). The fishes of Zanzibar, with a list of the fishes of the whole east coast of Africa. <em>London.</em> i-xiv + 1-153, Pls. 1-21. [details]
original description (of Anguilla mauritiana Bennett, 1831) Bennett, E. T. (1831). The exhibition of the collection of fishes formed at the Mauritius by Mr. Telfair, ... from among them ... the following species ... believed to have been previously undescribed. <em>Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1830-31 (pt 1): 126-128. [details]
original description (of Anguilla fidjiensis Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
original description (of Anguilla hildebrandti Sauvage, 1891) Sauvage, H.-E. (1891). Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Volume XVI. <em>Histoire naturelle des poissons. 2 volumes (text and atlas). Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.</em> 1-50 + 13 pls. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Anguilla johannae Günther, 1867) Playfair, R. L.; Günther, A. (1867). The fishes of Zanzibar, with a list of the fishes of the whole east coast of Africa. <em>London.</em> i-xiv + 1-153, Pls. 1-21. [details]
original description (of Anguilla mauritiana Bennett, 1831) Bennett, E. T. (1831). The exhibition of the collection of fishes formed at the Mauritius by Mr. Telfair, ... from among them ... the following species ... believed to have been previously undescribed. <em>Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1830-31 (pt 1): 126-128. [details]
original description (of Anguilla fidjiensis Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
original description (of Anguilla hildebrandti Sauvage, 1891) Sauvage, H.-E. (1891). Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Volume XVI. <em>Histoire naturelle des poissons. 2 volumes (text and atlas). Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.</em> 1-50 + 13 pls. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Inhabits deep rocky pools and is active at night, feeding on a wide range of prey, especially crabs, frogs and fish (Ref. 7248). [details]
To Barcode of Life (333 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Anguilla hildebrandti Peters, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Muraena manillensis Bleeker, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Anguilla johannae Günther, 1867)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications) (from synonym Anguilla mauritiana Bennett, 1831)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anguilla marmorata)
To FishBase (from synonym Muraena manillensis Bleeker, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla mauritiana Bennett, 1831)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla johannae Günther, 1867)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla hildebrandti Peters, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla marmolata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla labrosa Richardson, 1848)
To Fishbase (from synonym Anguilla fidjiensis Günther, 1870)
To Fishbase (from synonym Anguilla hildebrandti Sauvage, 1891)
To FishBase images (Anguilla marmorata, Laos, by Warren, T.)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (40942 nucleotides; 517 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Anguilla marmorata USNM 392496 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Anguilla hildebrandti Peters, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Muraena manillensis Bleeker, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Anguilla johannae Günther, 1867)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications) (from synonym Anguilla mauritiana Bennett, 1831)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anguilla marmorata)
To FishBase (from synonym Muraena manillensis Bleeker, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla mauritiana Bennett, 1831)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla johannae Günther, 1867)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla hildebrandti Peters, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla marmolata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To FishBase (from synonym Anguilla labrosa Richardson, 1848)
To Fishbase (from synonym Anguilla fidjiensis Günther, 1870)
To Fishbase (from synonym Anguilla hildebrandti Sauvage, 1891)
To FishBase images (Anguilla marmorata, Laos, by Warren, T.)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (40942 nucleotides; 517 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Anguilla marmorata USNM 392496 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
