Gymnothorax mordax
Description
Gymnothorax mordax (Ayres, 1859).
California Moray. To 152 cm (5 ft) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Point Conception, California to Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), including Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Reyes-Bonilla et al. 2010), and Rocas Alijos (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). A specimen reported from Clipperton Island (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) was misidentified (Katherine Dale and Arturo Ramírez, pers. comm. to M.L.), and one from Nicaragua (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) is a leptocephalus. Early-stage larvae have been taken around Cabos San Lucas, in the lowermost part of the Gulf of California (on both sides), and down the Mexican mainland as far south as Mazatlán (William Watson, pers. comm. to M.L.). Beltrán-León and Rios Herrera (2000) tentatively identified larvae captured off Colombia as this species. Benthic; depth: lower intertidal to 40 m (131 ft) (min.: Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010b; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Gymnothorax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- mordax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gymnothorax mordax (Ayres, 1859) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Reyes-Bonilla, H., Ayala-Bocos, A., Gonzalez-Romero, S., Sanchez-Alcantara, I., Mendoza, M. W., Bedolla-Guzman, Y. R., Ramirez-Valdez, A., Calderon-Aguilera, L. E. & Olivares-Banuelos, N. C. (2010) Checklist and biogeography of fishes from Guadalupe Island, western Mexico. CalCOFI Reports, 51, 195 - 209.
- Beltran-Leon, B. S. & Rios Herrera, R. (2000) Estadios Tempranos de Peces del Pacific Colombiano. Republica de Colombia. Instituto Nacional de Pesca y Acuicultura INPA.
- Ruiz-Campos, G., Gonzalez-Guzman, S., Ramirez-Valdez, A., Gonzalez-Acosta, A. F., Castro-Aguirre, J. L. & de la Cruz-Aguero, J. (2010 b) Composition, density and biogeographic affinities of the rocky intertidal fishes on the western coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. CalCOFI Reports, 51, 210 - 220.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.