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Scuticaria tigrina
Description
* Scuticaria tigrina (Lesson, 1828).
Tiger Moray or Tiger Reef Eel. To 140 cm (55.1 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Taiwan (Ho et al. 2015); Gulf of California to Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2002), including southern tip of Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: 3–25 m (10–83 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Scuticaria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesson
- Species
- tigrina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scuticaria tigrina (Lesson, 1828) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Ho, H. - C., Smith, D. G., J. E. McCosker, Y. Hibino, Y., Loh, K. H., Tighe, K. A. & Shao, K. - T. (2015) Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan. Zootaxa, 4060, 140 - 189. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4060.1.16
- 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.