WoRMS taxon details
Gymnothorax formosus Bleeker, 1864
271835 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271835)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bleeker, P. (1864). Poissons inédits indo-archipélagiques de l'ordre des Murènes. <em>Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde.</em> v. 2: 38-54. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Gymnothorax formosus Bleeker, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271835 on 2026-06-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Bleeker, P. (1864). Poissons inédits indo-archipélagiques de l'ordre des Murènes. <em>Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde.</em> v. 2: 38-54. [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
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 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
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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
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnothorax formosus)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnothorax formosus USNM 439903 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnothorax formosus)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnothorax formosus USNM 439903 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
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