Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Gymnothorax albimentis (Evermann & Marsh, 1900) (synonym)

Gymnothorax concolor (Abbott, 1860) (synonym)

Gymnothorax flavoscriptus Poey, 1876 (synonym)

Gymnothorax moringua (Cuvier, 1829) (synonym)

Gymnothorax picturatus Poey, 1880 (synonym)

Gymnothorax rostratus Agassiz, 1831 (synonym)

Lycodontis albimentis Evermann & Marsh, 1900 (synonym)

Lycodontis moringa (Cuvier, 1829) (synonym)

Muraena moringa Cuvier, 1829 (synonym)

Muraena punctata Gronow, 1854 (ambiguous synonym)

Murenophis caramuru Castelnau, 1855 (synonym)

Murenophis curvilineata Castelnau, 1855 (synonym)

Sidera flavoscripta (Poey, 1876) (synonym)

Sidera moringa (Cuvier, 1829) (synonym)

Thyrsoidea concolor Abbott, 1860 (synonym)

Common names:

Aimoré Portuguese

Amoréia-pintada Portuguese

Caramuru Portuguese

Conger eel English

Congla Papiamento

Congo English, Spanish

Common conger English

Common spotted moray English

Conger English, German

Culebra di awa Papiamento

Eel English

Enguia Portuguese

Hamlet English

Kongla Papiamento

Miroró Portuguese

Miroró pintado Portuguese

Moréia Creole, Portuguese, Portuguese

Moréia americana Portuguese

Moréia-pintada Creole, Portuguese, Portuguese

Moréia-verde Portuguese

Morena Catalan, Italian, Spanish

Morena colorado Spanish

Morena de mentón blanco Spanish

Morena manchada Spanish

Morena pintada Spanish

Moringa cetkowana Polish

Morongo Portuguese

Mororó Portuguese

Murène tachetée French

Mussulina Portuguese

Mutuca Portuguese

Mututuca Portuguese

Red moray English

Sangrador Portuguese, Spanish

Speckled moray English

Spotted moray English

Täplämureena Finnish

Tororó Portuguese

Totoró Gela, Portuguese

White cong English

White jawed moray English

White-chinned moray English

White-jawed moray eel English

Plettet muræne Danish

Muréna poskvrněná Czech

点纹裸胸鳝 Mandarin Chinese

紅裸胸鱔 Mandarin Chinese

红裸胸鳝 Mandarin Chinese

點紋裸胸鱔 Mandarin Chinese

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Anguilliformes

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Family Muraenidae

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Genus Gymnothorax

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Distribution:

Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Ascension Island; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic, Northwest; Atlantic, Southeast; Atlantic, Southwest; Atlantic, Western Central; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Brazil; Caribbean Sea; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaçao Island; Dominica; Dominican Republic; East Brazil Shelf; French Guiana; Grenada; Guatemala; Gulf of Mexico; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Mexico; Nicaragua; North Brazil Shelf; Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf; Pacific, Northwest; Pacific, Western Central; Panama; Puerto Rico; Saint Helena; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent & the Grenadines; South Brazil Shelf; Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf; Suriname; Trindade Island; Trinidad and Tobago; US Virgin Islands; USA (contiguous states); Venezuela; Viet Nam; Virgin Islands (UK); Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA and Bermuda to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean to southeastern Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Ascension and St. Helena (Ref. 4450). Mid- and eastern Atlantic islands (Ref. 26938).

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2007

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 03-Aug-1994

Online resource:

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


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:dc630c5c-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2008


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