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Muraena argus

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Description

Muraena argus (Steindachner, 1870).

Argus Moray or White-spotted Moray. To 120 cm (47.2 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Santa Catalina Island (McCosker and Smith 2004) and Redondo Beach, southern California (Phil Garner, pers. comm. to M.L.), La Jolla, southern California (Scott McGee, pers. comm. to M.L.), and Bahía Magdalena (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern Baja California to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), Gulf of California, and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: 5–120 m (17–394 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2008; max.: Aburto-Oropeza et al. 2011).

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 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFB0FF9498EAFCFAFB703426

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://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFB0FF9498EAFCFAFB703426 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191882311 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFB0FF9498EAFCFAFB703426.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Muraenidae
Genus
Muraena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Steindachner
Species
argus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Muraena argus (Steindachner, 1870) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Jimenez Prado, P. & Bearez, P. (2004) Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / marine fishes of continental Ecuador. SIMBIOE / NAZCA / IFEA TOMO II, Quito.
  • McCosker, J. E. & Smith, D. G. (2004) The argus moray, Muraena argus, added to the California fauna. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 55, 248 - 249.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
  • Aburto-Oropeza, O., Caso, M., Erisman, B. & Ezcurra, E. (2011) Log of the Deep Sea, an Expedition to the Gulf of California. Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, University of California Mexus and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Acero, A. P. & Franke, R. (1995) Nuevos registros de peces cartilaginosos del Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona (Pacifico Colombiano). II. Rayas y descripcion de una nueva especie. In: La Isla de Gorgona, Nuevos Estudios Biologicos, Volume II. Biblioteca Jose Jeronimo Triana, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de Bogota, pp. 19 - 21.