WoRMS taxon details
Gymnothorax equatorialis (Hildebrand, 1946)
271832 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271832)
accepted
Species
Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946) Hildebrand, S. F. (1946). A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 189: i-xi + 1-530., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10117 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Gymnothorax equatorialis (Hildebrand, 1946). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271832 on 2026-02-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946) Hildebrand, S. F. (1946). A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 189: i-xi + 1-530., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10117 [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
context source (PeRMS)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnothorax equatorialis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Priodonophis equatorialis P07038 illustration) (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Priodonophis equatorialis RAD118629-001) (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnothorax equatorialis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Priodonophis equatorialis P07038 illustration) (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Priodonophis equatorialis RAD118629-001) (from synonym Priodonophis equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946)
To ITIS