Anarchias
Encyclopedia
Anarchias is a genus
of moray eel
s in the family Muraenidae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moray eel
Moray eel
Moray eels are cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. The approximately 200 species in 15 genera are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water and a few, for example the freshwater moray can sometimes be found in freshwater...
s in the family Muraenidae.
Species
- Anarchias allardiceiAnarchias allardiceiAnarchias allardicei is a moray eel commonly known as the Allardice's moray. It is light brown in colour, and is found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans....
D. S. JordanDavid Starr JordanDavid Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...
& StarksEdwin Chapin StarksEdwin Chapin Starks was an ichthyologist most associated with Stanford University. He was known as an authority on the osteology of fish. He also did studies of fish of the Puget Sound. Additionally his wife and daughter were both involved in either science or natural history....
, 1906 (Allardice's moray) - Anarchias cantonensisAnarchias cantonensisAnarchias cantonensis is a moray eel commonly known as the Canton Island moray or the Canton moray. It was first named by Schultz in 1943, and is found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans....
(L. P. Schultz, 1943) (Canton Island moray) - Anarchias euryurusAnarchias euryurusAnarchias euryurus is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Lea in 1913....
(E. H. M. Lea, 1913) - Anarchias exulatus Reece, D. G. Smith & Holm, 2010
- Anarchias galapagensisAnarchias galapagensisAnarchias galapagensis is a moray eel commonly known as the Minute moray or the Hardtail moray. It was first named by Seale in 1940, and is found in coral reefs from the Gulf of California to Colombia. At a maximum length of 14 cm, it is regarded as one of the smallest morays worldwide....
(Seale, 1940) (Minute moray) - Anarchias leucurusAnarchias leucurusAnarchias leucurus is a moray eel found in the Pacific Ocean. It was first named by Snyder in 1904 as Uropterygius leucurus, and is commonly known as the Snyder's moray, fine-spotted moray, or the finespot moray. It is thought to be the smallest species of moray, and may actually represent several...
(SnyderJohn Otterbein SnyderJohn Otterbein Snyder was an American zoologist.As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at Stanford University and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the USS Albatross...
, 1904) (Snyder's moray) - Anarchias longicaudisAnarchias longicaudisAnarchias longicaudis is a moray eel found in the eastern-central Atlantic Ocean. It was first named by Peters in 1877....
(W. K. H. PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
, 1877) - Anarchias schultzi Reece, D. G. Smith & Holm, 2010
- Anarchias seychellensisAnarchias seychellensisAnarchias seychellensis is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Smith in 1962, and is commonly known as the Seychelles moray or the Marbled reef-eel....
J. L. B. Smith, 1962 (Seychelles moray) - Anarchias similisAnarchias similisAnarchias similis is a moray eel found in coral reefs the Atlantic Ocean. It was first named by Lea in 1913, and is commonly known as the Pygmy moray. It ranges in colour and patterning from dark brown all over to blotched....
(E. H. M. Lea, 1913) (Pygmy moray) - Anarchias supremus McCosker & A. L. Stewart, 2006