Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Gymnothorax maderensis (Johnson, 1862) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Ahynnodontophis rosaliae Howell Rivero, 1932 (synonym)

Lycodontis unicolor (non Delaroche, 1809) (misapplied name)

Muraena maderensis (Johnson, 1862) (synonym)

Pseudomuraena maderensis Johnson, 1862 (synonym)

Common names:

Moreão Portuguese

Moreia-da-Madeira Portuguese

Morena de Madeira Spanish

Morena verde Spanish

Murène de Madère French

Sharktooth moray English

Muréna madeirská Czech

馬德拉裸胸鱔 Mandarin Chinese

马德拉裸胸鳝 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:

Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic, Eastern Central; Atlantic, Northwest; Atlantic, Western Central; Benin; Bermuda; Canary Current; Caribbean Sea; Cruiser Tablemount; Cuba; Eastern Atlantic: Madeira and Benin. Western Atlantic: Bermuda and the West Indies. North Carolina, USA (Ref. 26938).; Guinea Current; Madeira Islands; Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf; Puerto Rico; Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf; USA (contiguous states)

Additional data:

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Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2007

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 21-Aug-1994

Online resource:

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


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:dc699b3a-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2008


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