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Gymnothorax castaneus

Creators

Description

Gymnothorax castaneus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883).

Chestnut Moray or Panama Green Moray. To 155.2 cm (61.1 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), and perhaps to Chipana, northern Chile (Sielfeld 2010), including Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 101 m (3–331 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFB1FF9598EAFD08FE843417

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFB1FF9598EAFD08FE843417 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191882304 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFB1FF9598EAFD08FE843417.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Muraenidae
Genus
Gymnothorax
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Jordan & Gilbert
Species
castaneus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gymnothorax castaneus (Jordan, 1883) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
  • Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.
  • Sielfeld, W., Laudien, J., Vargas, M. & Villegas, M. (2010) El Nino induced changes of the coastal fish fauna off northern Chile and implications for ichthyogeography. Revista de Biologia Marina Oceanografia, 45, S 1, 705 - 722. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / s 0718 - 19572010000400014
  • Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Giraldo, A. & Zapata, F. A. (2014) Tidepool fish assemblages of Gorgona Island, Colombian Pacific coast: a local and regional comparison). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 62 (Supplement 1), 373 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 62 i 0.16362