WoRMS taxon details
Gymnothorax melatremus Schultz, 1953
217481 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217481)
accepted
Species
Lycodontis melatremus (Schultz, 1953) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Schultz, L. P.; Herald, E. S.; Lachner, E. A.; Welander, A. D.; Woods, L. P. (1953). Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1-685, Pls. 1-74. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gymnothorax melatremus Schultz, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217481 on 2025-07-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Schultz, L. P.; Herald, E. S.; Lachner, E. A.; Welander, A. D.; Woods, L. P. (1953). Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1-685, Pls. 1-74. [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]
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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ヒメウツボ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnothorax melatremus)
To FishBase (from synonym Lycodontis melatremus (Schultz, 1953))
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Gymnothorax melatremus, Seychelles, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 34 proteins)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 34 proteins) (from synonym Lycodontis melatremus (Schultz, 1953))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnothorax melatremus RAD107859-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnothorax melatremus USNM 141610 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnothorax melatremus)
To FishBase (from synonym Lycodontis melatremus (Schultz, 1953))
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Gymnothorax melatremus, Seychelles, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 34 proteins)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 34 proteins) (from synonym Lycodontis melatremus (Schultz, 1953))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnothorax melatremus RAD107859-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnothorax melatremus USNM 141610 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
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