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WoRMS taxon details

Gymnothorax castlei Böhlke & Randall, 1999

To FishBase images (<i>Gymnothorax castlei</i>, Philippines, by Allen, G.R.)

To FishBase images (Gymnothorax castlei, Philippines, by Allen, G.R.)

AphiaID

271826 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271826)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Gymnothorax Bloch, 1795

Original name

Gymnothorax castlei Böhlke & Randall, 1999

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Böhlke, E. B.; Randall, J. E. (1999). Gymnothorax castlei, a new species of Indo-Pacific moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae). Raffles Bull. Zool. 47(2): 549-554. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gymnothorax castlei Böhlke & Randall, 1999. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271826 on 2025-07-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Böhlke, E. B.; Randall, J. E. (1999). Gymnothorax castlei, a new species of Indo-Pacific moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae). Raffles Bull. Zool. 47(2): 549-554. [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]