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Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard 1824

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Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824

Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824:241 (type locality: Waigeo, Indonesia). Chen, 1956:73; Chen & Weng, 1967:4; Chen, 1969:124; Shen, 1984a:103; Chen & Yu, 1986:242; Shen et al., 1993:97, fig. 14-6; Chen & Fang, 1999:52; Lin, 2007:84; Chen, 2009:8; Ho et al., 2010:table 1; Chou & Kao, 2011:35; Chang et al., 2011:1.

Anguilla mauritiana Bennett, 1831: Jordan & Evermann, 1902:325; Oshima, 1919:262.

Anguilla manillensis (Bleeker, 1864a): Jordan & Richardson, 1909:171.

Remarks. This is the most widely distributed species of Anguilla, occurring from East Africa to French Polynesia, and from Papua New Guinea to southern Japan.

Notes

Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A. & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2015, Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan, pp. 140-189 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651

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