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Gymnothorax nudivomer (Günther, 1867)

217488  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217488)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Muraena nudivomer 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] 
Description Found in seaward reefs in the Red Sea at 4 m or more. Usually found in more than 30 m elsewhere. It's mucus is toxic.  
Description Found in seaward reefs in the Red Sea at 4 m or more. Usually found in more than 30 m elsewhere. It's mucus is toxic. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gymnothorax nudivomer (Günther, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217488 on 2025-06-04
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
1998-06-10 06:08:33Z
changed
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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Nomenclature

original description (of Gymnothorax insignis Seale, 1917) Seale, A. (1917). New species of apodal fishes. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 61 (4): 79-94. [details] 

original description (of Muraena nudivomer 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] 

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 Cabebe-Barnuevo, R. A.; Obar, E. A. A.; Penuela, D. F. A.; Motomura, H.; Babaran, R. P.; Malay, M. C. D. (2023). Two new records of moray eels representing genera Gymnothorax and Strophidon (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from the Philippines. <em>Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria.</em> 53: 217-226., available online at https://aiep.pensoft.net/article/108838/list/8/ [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] OpenAccess publication

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Found in seaward reefs in the Red Sea at 4 m or more. Usually found in more than 30 m elsewhere. It's mucus is toxic. [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Synonymy G. xanthostomus is a synonym Randall <307>, [details]
    Definitions

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English yellowmouth moraystarry moray  [details]
Japanese アデウツボ  [details]