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Gymnothorax equatorialis
Description
Gymnothorax equatorialis (Hildebrand, 1946).
Equatorial Moray or Spottail Moray. To 100 cm (39.4 in) TL (Gómez et al. 2014). Bahía San Cristóbal, southern Baja California (27°37’N, 114°55’W) (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008), Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) to Iquique, northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 2010), including southern tip of Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 5–183 m (16–600 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; 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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Gymnothorax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hildebrand
- Species
- equatorialis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gymnothorax equatorialis (Hildebrand, 1946) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Gomez, S., Alejandro Caicedo, J. & Alonso Zapata, L. (2014) Captura de peces no comerciales con espinel experimental de fondo en Isla Gorgona, Colombia, y su area de influencia. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 62 (Supplement 1), 391 - 405. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 62 i 0.16365
- Rodriguez-Romero, J., Palacios-Salgado, D. S. & Gutierrez Sanchez, F. J. (2008) First record of the spottail moray Gymnothorax equatorialis (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) off the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Marine Biodiversity Records, 1, 2 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / s 1755267207007981
- 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.
- 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
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.