WoRMS taxon details

Gymnothorax saxicola Jordan & Davis, 1891

158585  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158585)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Jordan, D. S. ; Davis, B. M. (1891). A preliminary review of the apodal fishes or eels inhabiting the waters of America and Europe. <em>United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries Report of the Commissioner.</em> v. 16 (art. 9): 581-677, Pls. 73-80. [details]   
Distribution Western Atlantic: New Jersey, USA and Bermuda to southern Florida, USA and eastern Gulf of Mexico (to Mississippi River...  
Distribution Western Atlantic: New Jersey, USA and Bermuda to southern Florida, USA and eastern Gulf of Mexico (to Mississippi River Delta). Reported from Cuba and Belize  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Gymnothorax saxicola Jordan & Davis, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158585 on 2024-03-28
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2005-05-26 07:43:32Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description Jordan, D. S. ; Davis, B. M. (1891). A preliminary review of the apodal fishes or eels inhabiting the waters of America and Europe. <em>United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries Report of the Commissioner.</em> v. 16 (art. 9): 581-677, Pls. 73-80. [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]   

basis of record Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [details]   

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

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

From other sources
Distribution Western Atlantic: New Jersey, USA and Bermuda to southern Florida, USA and eastern Gulf of Mexico (to Mississippi River Delta). Reported from Cuba and Belize  [details]

Habitat benthic [details]
LanguageName 
English ocellated morayhoneycomb moray  [details]
Spanish morena panal  [details]