Genus Gymnothorax Bloch, 1795

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External Links

• Gymnothorax Bloch, M.E. 1795. Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Berlin : J. Morino Vol. 9 192 pp. pls 397-429. [83].

  Type species:

   Gymnothorax reticularis Bloch, 1795 by subsequent designation, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1926. Opinions rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinions 91–97. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4): 1-30 [7].
• Siderea Kaup, J.J. 1856. Uebersicht der Aale. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 22(1): 41-77 [58].

  Type species:

   Muraena pfeifferi Bleeker, 1853 by subsequent designation, see Jordan, D.S. 1919. The genera of fishes. Part 2. Stanford University Publications, University Series 36: 153-284 [271] (type species as Muraena Pfeifferi).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Böhlke, E.B. & Randall, J.E. 2000. A review of the moray eels (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) of the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 150: 203-278

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

MURAENIDAE: Gymnothorax australicola Lavenberg, 1992 — Böhlke, E.B. & McCosker, J.E. 2001. The moray eels of Australia and New Zealand, with the description of two new species (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae). Records of the Australian Museum 53: 71-102 figs 1-10 [84] (record of paratype from Lord Howe Island based on a misidentification of G. atolli)

MURAENIDAE: Gymnothorax panamensis (Steindachner, 1876) — Böhlke, E.B. & McCosker, J.E. 2001. The moray eels of Australia and New Zealand, with the description of two new species (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae). Records of the Australian Museum 53: 71-102 figs 1-10 [98] (restricted to Eastern Pacific, based on misidentified G. atolli)

MURAENIDAE: Gymnothorax reticularis Bloch, 1795 [restricted to Red Sea and western Indian Ocean, Australian records are misidentifications of G. minor] — Smith, D.G. & Böhlke, E.B. 1997. A review of the Indo-Pacific banded morays of the Gymnothorax reticularis group, with descriptions of three new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 148: 177-188 [187]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls.

Böhlke, E.B., McCosker, J.E. & Böhlke, J.E. 1989. Family Muraenidae. pp. 104-206 in Böhlke, E.B. (ed.). Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes. Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Memoir. Sears Foundation of Marine Research 1(9): 1-655

Böhlke, E.B. & McCosker, J.E. 2001. The moray eels of Australia and New Zealand, with the description of two new species (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae). Records of the Australian Museum 53: 71-102 figs 1-10

Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp.

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2019	ELOPOMORPHA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese (AM)
27-Jul-2016	ELOPOMORPHA	07-Sep-2018	MODIFIED
23-Sep-2011	ANGUILLIFORMES	23-Sep-2011	MOVED	Dr Dianne Bray
27-Jul-2016		11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
		11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED