Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Gymnothorax undulatus (Lacepède, 1803) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Echidna fascigula (non Peters, 1855) (misapplied name)

Lycodontis undulata (Lacepède, 1803) (synonym)

Lycodontis undulatus (Lacepède, 1803) (synonym)

Muraena cancellata Richardson, 1848 (synonym)

Muraenophis undulata Lacepède, 1803 (synonym)

Poecilophis fascigula (non Peters, 1855) (misapplied name)

Common names:

Aajalai Tamil

Aaltomureena Finnish

Anguille lamandia Creole, French

Anguille petit chien Creole, French

Anguille voleuse Creole, French

Bakasi Cebuano, Tagalog

Bwalagom Kumak

Cá L?ch vân sóng Vietnamese

Common hawaiian moray English

Common moray eel English

Divi gal-gulla Sinhalese

Dreb Marshallese

Drep Marshallese

Hagmang Ilokano, Tagalog

Hangit Visayan, Waray-waray

Kabara gal-gulla Sinhalese

Kadukkamalanhi Mahl, Malayalam

Leopard moray English, Sinhalese

Leopardmuräna Swedish

Luiperd-bontpaling Afrikaans

Malibanos Tagalog

Moreia leopardo Portuguese

Morena ondulada Spanish

Mottled moray English

Murène ondulante French

Murène ondulée French

Mudiveng Mahl

Murène léopard French

Musaf a'raqta Arabic

Nami-utsubo English, Japanese

Pahi lau milo Hawaiian

Panglitan Surigaonon

Pananglitan Surigaonon, Visayan

Pooto Rapa

Puhi Hawaiian, Other, Rapa, Tahitian

Puhi pete Tahitian

Pusi-pulepule Samoan

Sangitan Davawenyo

Ubod Cebuano, Davawenyo, Hiligaynon, Surigaonon, Tagalog, Visayan, Waray-waray

Undulate moray English

Undulated eel English

Undulated moray English

Undulated moray black barred garfish English

Marmoreret muræne Danish

Muréna leopardí Czech

波紋裸胸鱔 Mandarin Chinese

波纹裸胸鳝 Mandarin Chinese

疏斑裸胸鯙 Mandarin Chinese

薯鰻 Mandarin Chinese

薯鳗 Mandarin Chinese

虎鳗 Mandarin Chinese

虎鰻 Mandarin Chinese

錢鰻 Mandarin Chinese

钱鳗 Mandarin Chinese

കടുക്ക മലഞ്ഞി Malayalam

കടുക്കമാലഞി  Malayalam

Classification:

Animalia

LSID

Phylum Chordata

LSID

Class Actinopterygii

LSID

Order Anguilliformes

LSID

Family Muraenidae

LSID

Genus Gymnothorax

LSID

Distribution:

Agulhas Current; American Samoa; Andaman Sea; Arabian Sea; Atlantic, Southeast; Australia; Bangladesh; Bay of Bengal; Brunei Darussalam; Cargados Carajos; Chagos Islands; China; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Comoros; Cook Islands; Coral Sea and GBR; Costa Rica; Davao Gulf; East China Sea; Egypt; French Polynesia; Great Barrier Reef; Guam; Gulf of Oman; Gulf of Thailand; Hawaii (USA); Hong Kong; Hsiao-liu-chiu; India; Indian Ocean; Indian Ocean, Eastern; Indian Ocean, Western; Indonesia; Indonesian Sea; Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa, including Walters Shoal (Ref. 33390) to French Polynesia, north to southern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef. Eastern Central Pacific: Costa Rica and Panama (Ref. 9324).; Insular Pacific-Hawaiian; Iran (Islamic Rep. of); Japan; Kenya; Kuroshio Current; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marquesas Islands; Marshall Islands; Mauritius; Micronesia,Fed.States of; Mozambique; Myanmar; New Caledonia; North Australian Shelf; Northeast Australian shelf; Northwest Australian Shelf; Ogasawara Islands; Oman; Pacific Central-American Coastal; Pacific Ocean; Pacific, Eastern Central; Pacific, Northwest; Pacific, Southwest; Pacific, Western Central; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peng-hu Island; Philippines; Polynesian Waters; Red Sea; Réunion; Rodriguez; Samoa; Seychelles; Singapore; Sogod Bay; Somali Coastal Current; Somalia; South Africa; South China Sea; Sri Lanka; Sulu-Celebes Sea; Tahiti; Taiwan; Tanzania, United Rep. of; Thailand; Tonga; Tuamoto Islands; Viet Nam; Yellow Sea

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2007

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 13-May-1994

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:dc440532-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2008


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