Gymnothorax
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Gymnothorax 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
- Gymnothorax aferGymnothorax aferGymnothorax afer is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic ocean, from Mauritania to Cape Frio, Namibia. It was first named by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1795, and is commonly known as the Dark moray....
BlochMarcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
, 1795 (Dark moray) - Gymnothorax albimarginatusGymnothorax albimarginatusGymnothorax albimarginatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs around Japan and Taiwan. It was first named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel in 1846, and is commonly known as the Whitemargin moray or the White-edged moray....
(TemminckCoenraad Jacob TemminckCoenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...
& SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
, 1846) (Whitemargin moray) - Gymnothorax angusticaudaGymnothorax angusticaudaGymnothorax angusticauda is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, in the Red Sea and around Indonesia. It was first named by Weber and de Beaufort in 1916....
(Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) - Gymnothorax angusticepsGymnothorax angusticepsGymnothorax angusticeps is a moray eel found in the southeast Pacific Ocean, around Peru. It was first named by Hildebrand and Barton in 1949....
(Hildebrand & F. O. BartonOtis BartonFrederick Otis Barton, Jr. was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930. They set the first record for deep-sea diving by descending 600 feet...
, 1949) - Gymnothorax annasonaGymnothorax annasonaGymnothorax annasona is a moray eel found in the southwest Pacific Ocean, around Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. It was first named by Whitley in 1937, and is commonly known as the Lord Howe Island moray or the Lord Howe moray....
(WhitleyGilbert Percy WhitleyGilbert Percy Whitley was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Osborne House...
, 1937) - Gymnothorax annulatusGymnothorax annulatusGymnothorax annulatus is a moray eel found in the western Pacific Ocean, around the Philippines and Thailand. It was first named by Smith and Böhlke in 1997....
D. G. Smith & E. B. Böhlke, 1997 - Gymnothorax atolliGymnothorax atolliGymnothorax atolli is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the eastern Central Pacific ocean. It was first named by Pietschmann in 1935, and is commonly known as the Atoll moray....
(PietschmannViktor PietschmannViktor Pietschmann was an Austrian ichthyologist at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. He was the curator of the fish collection from 1919 to 1946. During his life, he made collecting to trips to the Barents Sea, Greenland, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Hawaii, Romania, and Poland. He described many...
, 1935) (Atoll moray) - Gymnothorax australicolaGymnothorax australicolaGymnothorax australicola is a moray eel found in the southeast and southwest Pacific ocean. It was first named by Lavenberg in 1992, and is commonly known as the South Pacific moray....
Lavenberg, 1992 (South Pacific moray) - Gymnothorax austrinusGymnothorax austrinusGymnothorax austrinus is a moray eel found in the eastern Indian Ocean, around Victoria, Australia. It was first named by Böhlke and McCosker in 2001 and is more commonly known as the Southern moray eel. It likes a moderate temperature, only lives in the ocean and it is a demersal fish, meaning...
E. B. Böhlke & McCosker, 2001 (Southern moray) - Gymnothorax bacalladoiGymnothorax bacalladoiGymnothorax bacalladoi is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found only around the Canary Islands in the eastern central Atlantic, at depths of between 17 and 605 m. Its length is up to 35 cm....
E. B. Böhlke & Brito, 1987 - Gymnothorax baranesiGymnothorax baranesiGymnothorax baranesi is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean, around the Gulf of Aquaba, Israel, and the Red Sea. It was first named by D.G. Smith, E. Brokovich, and S. Einbinder in 2008....
D. G. Smith, Brokovich & Einbinder, 2008 - Gymnothorax bathyphilusGymnothorax bathyphilusGymnothorax bathyphilus is a deep water moray eel found in the south Pacific Ocean, around Easter Island. It was first named by Randall and McCosker in 1975, and reaches a maximum length of about 76 centimetres. The type specimen was taken at a depth of 250 meters....
Randall & McCosker, 1975 - Gymnothorax berndtiGymnothorax berndtiGymnothorax berndti is a deep-water moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and western Indian oceans at depths of up to 300 meters. It was first named by Snyder in 1904, and is commonly known as the Y-patterned moray, Berndt's moray eel, or the Berndt's moray....
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 (Y-patterned moray) - Gymnothorax breedeniGymnothorax breedeniGymnothorax breedeni is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by McCosker and Randall in 1977, and is commonly known as the Blackcheek moray or the Masked moray....
McCosker & Randall, 1977 (Blackcheek moray) - Gymnothorax buroensisGymnothorax buroensisGymnothorax buroensis is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1857, and is commonly known as the Vagrant moray, Lattice-tail moray, Buru moray eel, or the Buro moray....
(BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1857) (Vagrant moray) - Gymnothorax castaneusGymnothorax castaneusThe panamic green moray eel is a large moray eel in the Pacific. Common names are panamic green moray eel and, more rarely, chestnut moray eel.-Range:...
(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:...
& C. H. GilbertCharles Henry GilbertCharles Henry Gilbert was a pioneer ichthyologist and fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States. He collected and studied fishes from Central America north to Alaska and described many new species...
, 1883) (Chestnut moray) - Gymnothorax castleiGymnothorax castleiGymnothorax castlei is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Central Pacific ocean. It was first named by E.B. Böhlke and J.E. Randall in 1999, and is commonly known as Castle's moray....
E. B. Böhlke & Randall, 1999 (Castle's moray) - Gymnothorax cephalospilusGymnothorax cephalospilusGymnothorax cephalospilus is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Böhlke and McCosker in 2001, and is commonly known as the Head-spot moray; also spelled as Headspot moray....
E. B. Böhlke & McCosker, 2001 (Head-spot moray) - Gymnothorax chilospilusGymnothorax chilospilusGymnothorax chilospilus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1864, and is commonly known as the Lipspot moray, Textile moray, White-lipped moray eel, or the White-lipped reef-eel....
BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1864 (Lipspot moray) - Gymnothorax chlamydatusGymnothorax chlamydatusGymnothorax chlamydatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean. It was first named by Snyder in 1908, and due to having dark bands along its body, it is commonly known as the Banded mud moray....
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...
, 1908 - Gymnothorax conspersusGymnothorax conspersusGymnothorax conspersus is a moray eel found in the western Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Felipe Poey in 1867, and is commonly known as the Saddled moray....
Poey, 1867 (Saddled moray) - Gymnothorax cribrorisGymnothorax cribrorisGymnothorax cribroris is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific ocean, around eastern Australia. It was first named by Whitley in 1932, and is commonly known as the Sieve-patterned moray, Sieve-patterned eel, Sieve moray, Brown-flecked reef eel, Brown-flecked moray, or the...
WhitleyGilbert Percy WhitleyGilbert Percy Whitley was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Osborne House...
, 1932 (Sieve-patterned moray) - Gymnothorax davidsmithi McCosker & Randall, 2008
- Gymnothorax dorsalisGymnothorax dorsalisGymnothorax dorsalis is a moray eel found in the western Pacific ocean, around Hong Kong, Malacca, Malaysia, and Taiwan. It was first named by Seale in 1917....
Seale, 1917 - Gymnothorax doviiGymnothorax doviiGymnothorax dovii is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific ocean, around the Galapagos Islands and along the Central American coast from Costa Rica to Colombia. It is also found in the Gulf of California. It reaches a length of about 170 cm....
(Günther, 1870) (Speckled moray) - Gymnothorax elegansGymnothorax elegansGymnothorax elegans is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Bliss in 1883, and is commonly known as the Elegant moray or the Goldsborough's moray eel....
Bliss, 1883 (Elegant moray) - Gymnothorax emmaeGymnothorax emmaeGymnothorax emmae is a moray eel found in tropical ocean waters off Vietnam. It is found in coral reefs at a depth range of 14m-100m in the South China Sea. The maximum length of this species 43.0 cm....
Prokofiev, 2010 - Gymnothorax enigmaticusGymnothorax enigmaticusGymnothorax enigmaticus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by McCosker and Randall in 1982, and is commonly known as the Enigmatic moray, Tiger moray, or the Banded moray....
McCosker & Randall, 1982 (Enigmatic moray) - Gymnothorax equatorialisGymnothorax equatorialisGymnothorax equatorialis is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific ocean, from the Gulf of California to Peru. It was first named by Hildebrand in 1946, and is commonly known as the Spotted-tail moray or the Spottail moray....
(Hildebrand, 1946) (Spotted-tail moray) - Gymnothorax eurostus (C. C. AbbottCharles Conrad AbbottCharles Conrad Abbott was an American archaeologist and naturalist, born at Trenton, New Jersey. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and served as a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War...
, 1860) (Abbott's moray eel) - Gymnothorax eurygnathosGymnothorax eurygnathosGymnothorax eurygnathos is a moray eel found in the eastern Central Pacific ocean, around the Gulf of California. It was first named by Eugenia B. Böhlke in 2001.-External links:*...
E. B. Böhlke, 2001 - Gymnothorax favagineus BlochMarcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
& J. G. SchneiderJohann Gottlob SchneiderJohann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist.-Biography:Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony...
, 1801 (Laced moray) - Gymnothorax fimbriatus (E. T. BennettEdward Turner BennettEdward Turner Bennett was an English zoologist and writer. He was the elder brother of the botanist John Joseph Bennett. Bennett was born at Hackney and practiced as a surgeon, but his chief pursuit was always zoology...
, 1832) (Fimbriated moray)
- Gymnothorax flavimarginatus (RüppellEduard RüppellWilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell was a German naturalist and explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to "Rueppell" for the English alphabet....
, 1830) (Yellow-edged moray) - Gymnothorax flavoculusGymnothorax flavoculusGymnothorax flavoculus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Indian ocean. It was first named by Eugenia B. Böhlke and John E. Randall in 1996, and is commonly known as the Palenose moray,...
(E. B. Böhlke & Randall, 1996) (Palenose moray) - Gymnothorax formosusGymnothorax formosusGymnothorax formosus is a moray eel found in the western Central Pacific ocean. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1864....
BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1864 - Gymnothorax funebris RanzaniCamillo RanzaniCamillo Ranzani was an Italian priest and a naturalist. He was director of the Museum of Natural History of Bologna from 1803 to 1841...
, 1840 (Green moray) - Gymnothorax fuscomaculatusGymnothorax fuscomaculatusGymnothorax fuscomaculatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Schultz in 1953, and is commonly known as the Brown spotted moray, or the Freckled moray....
(L. P. Schultz, 1953) (Brown spotted moray) - Gymnothorax gracilicaudaGymnothorax gracilicaudaGymnothorax gracilicauda is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific ocean. It was first named by Jenkins in 1903, and is commonly known as the Slendertail moray or the Graceful-tailed moray....
O. P. Jenkins, 1903 (Slendertail moray) - Gymnothorax griseus (Lacépède, 1803) (Geometric moray)
- Gymnothorax hansi Heemstra, 2004
- Gymnothorax hepaticusGymnothorax hepaticusGymnothorax hepaticus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Eduard Rüppell in 1830, and is commonly known as the Liver-colored moray eel....
(RüppellEduard RüppellWilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell was a German naturalist and explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to "Rueppell" for the English alphabet....
, 1830) (Liver-colored moray eel) - Gymnothorax herreiGymnothorax herreiGymnothorax herrei is a moray eel found in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Beebe and Tee-Van in 1933....
Beebe & Tee-Van, 1933 - Gymnothorax hubbsiGymnothorax hubbsiGymnothorax hubbsi is a moray eel found in the western Atlantic ocean, around eastern Florida, the Bahamas, and Cuba. It was first named by Böhlke and Böhlke in 1977, and is commonly known as the Lichen moray....
J. E. Böhlke & E. B. Böhlke, 1977 (Lichen moray) - Gymnothorax intesiGymnothorax intesiGymnothorax intesi is a moray eel found in the western Pacific ocean, around New Caledonia. It was first named by Fourmanoir and Rivaton in 1979, and is commonly known as the Whitetip moray....
(FourmanoirPierre FourmanoirPierre Fourmanoir was a French ichthyologist working mainly in New Caledonia. He has described many new species of fish including several sharks.-References:*...
& Rivaton, 1979) (Whitetip moray) - Gymnothorax isingteenaGymnothorax isingteenaGymnothorax isingteena is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by John Richardson in 1845, and is commonly known as the Spotted moray....
(J. RichardsonJohn Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
, 1845) - Gymnothorax javanicus (BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1859) (Giant moray) - Gymnothorax johnsoniGymnothorax johnsoniGymnothorax johnsoni is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean. It was first named by Smith in 1962, and is commonly known as the Whitespotted moray....
(J. L. B. Smith, 1962) (Whitespotted moray) - Gymnothorax kidako (TemminckCoenraad Jacob TemminckCoenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...
& SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
, 1846) (Kidako moray) - Gymnothorax kolposGymnothorax kolposGymnothorax kolpos is a moray eel found in the western Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Böhlke and Böhlke in 1980, and is commonly known as the Blacktail moray....
J. E. Böhlke & E. B. Böhlke, 1980 (Blacktail moray) - Gymnothorax kontodontosGymnothorax kontodontosGymnothorax kontodontos is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the eastern central Pacific ocean, around Fanning Island. It was first named by Böhlke in 2000, and is commonly known as the Short-tooth moray....
E. B. Böhlke, 2000 (Short-tooth moray) - Gymnothorax longinquusGymnothorax longinquusGymnothorax longinquus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the southwest Pacific ocean. It was first named by Whitley in 1948, and is commonly known as the Yellow-gilled reef-eel, Yellow-gilled moray, Brown moray-eel, or the Long moray....
(WhitleyGilbert Percy WhitleyGilbert Percy Whitley was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Osborne House...
, 1948) - Gymnothorax maderensisGymnothorax maderensisGymnothorax maderensis is a moray eel found in the eastern and western Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Johnson in 1862, and is commonly known as the Sharktooth moray....
(J. Y. Johnson, 1862) (Sharktooth moray) - Gymnothorax mareeiGymnothorax mareeiGymnothorax mareei is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Max Poll in 1953, and is commonly known as the Spotjaw moray....
PollMax PollMax Fernand Leon Poll was a Belgian ichthyologist who specialised in Cichlidae.In the years 1946 and 1947 he organised an expedition to Lake Tanganyika....
, 1953 (Spotjaw moray) - Gymnothorax margaritophorusGymnothorax margaritophorusGymnothorax margaritophorus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1864, and is commonly known as the Blotch-necked moray, Blackpearl moray, Pearly moray eel, Pearly moray, Pearly reef-eel, or the Trunk-eyed moray....
BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1864 (Blotch-necked moray) - Gymnothorax marshallensisGymnothorax marshallensisGymnothorax marshallensis is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific ocean. It was first named by Schultz in 1953, and is commonly known as the Marshall Islands moray....
(L. P. Schultz, 1953) (Marshall Islands moray) - Gymnothorax mccoskeriGymnothorax mccoskeriGymnothorax mccoskeri is a moray eel found in the western Pacific and the eastern Indian ocean. It was first named by Smith and Böhlke in 1997, and is commonly known as the McCosker's moray, Many-banded moray-eel, or the Manyband moray....
D. G. Smith & E. B. Böhlke, 1997 - Gymnothorax megaspilusGymnothorax megaspilusGymnothorax megaspilus is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean. It was first named by Böhlke and Randall in 1995, and is commonly known as the Oman moray....
E. B. Böhlke & Randall, 1995 (Oman moray) - Gymnothorax melatremusGymnothorax melatremusGymnothorax melatremus is a Moray Eel from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 26cm in length....
L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Dwarf moray) - Gymnothorax meleagris (G. ShawGeorge ShawGeorge Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...
, 1795) (Turkey moray) - Gymnothorax microspilaGymnothorax microspilaGymnothorax microspila is a moray eel found in the eastern Indian ocean, around the East Indian Archipelago. It was first named by Albert Günther in 1870....
(Günther, 1870) - Gymnothorax microstictusGymnothorax microstictusGymnothorax microstictus is a moray eel found in the western Central Pacific ocean, around Papua New Guinea. It was first named by Böhlke in 2000, and is commonly known as the Smallspot moray....
E. B. Böhlke, 2000 - Gymnothorax miliarisGymnothorax miliarisGymnothorax miliaris, the Goldentail moray, is a moray eel from the Western Atlantic. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 70cm in length....
(KaupJohann Jakob KaupJohann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
, 1856) (Goldentail moray) - Gymnothorax minorGymnothorax minorGymnothorax minor is a moray eel found in the western Pacific ocean. It was first named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel in 1846, and is commonly known as the Lesser moray or the Reticulated moray-eel....
(TemminckCoenraad Jacob TemminckCoenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...
& SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
, 1846) - Gymnothorax moluccensisGymnothorax moluccensisGymnothorax moluccensis is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1864, and is commonly known as the Moluccan moray or the Moluccen moray....
BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1864 (Moluccan moray) - Gymnothorax monochrousGymnothorax monochrousGymnothorax monochrous is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1856, and is commonly known as the Drab moray, Brown moray, Monochrome moray, Monotone moray, or the Plain moray eel....
(BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1856) (Drab moray) - Gymnothorax monostigmaGymnothorax monostigmaGymnothorax monostigma is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Charles Tate Regan in 1909, and is commonly known as the One-spot moray ....
(Regan, 1909) (One-spot moray) - Gymnothorax mordax (AyresWilliam Orville AyresWilliam Orville Ayres was an American physician and ichthyologist. Born in Connecticut, he studied to become a doctor at Yale University School of Medicine....
, 1859) (California moray)
- Gymnothorax moringa (CuvierGeorges CuvierGeorges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
, 1829) (Spotted moray) - Gymnothorax muciferGymnothorax muciferGymnothorax mucifer is a moray eel found in the eastern central Pacific ocean, around the Hawaiian Islands. It was first named by Snyder in 1904, and can measure up to approximately 66 centimetres in length....
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 - Gymnothorax nasutaGymnothorax nasutaGymnothorax nasuta is a moray eel found in the southeast Pacific ocean, around Easter Island and Chile. It was first named by de Buen in 1961, and is commonly known as the Easter island moray....
de BuenDon Fernando de Buen y LozanoDon Fernando de Buen y Lozano was a Spanish ichthyologist and oceanographer. He lived in Mexico, Uruguay, and Chile. In Uruguay, he was the director of the Department of Science at the Oceanography and Fisheries Service as well as Professor of Hydrobiology and Protozoology in the Faculty of Arts...
, 1961 (Easter Island moray) - Gymnothorax neglectusGymnothorax neglectusGymnothorax neglectus is a moray eel found in the northwest Pacific ocean, around Taiwan and Japan. It was first named by Tanaka in 1911, and reaches a maximum length of approximately 120 centimetres....
S. Tanaka (I)Shigeho Tanakawas a Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He published numerous works on fishes and sharks and co-authored a book on Japanese fish with famous American scientist David Starr Jordan.Publications:...
, 1911 - Gymnothorax nigromarginatusGymnothorax nigromarginatusGymnothorax nigromarginatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Charles Frédéric Girard in 1858, and is commonly known as the Blackedge moray....
(GirardCharles Frédéric GirardCharles Frédéric Girard was a French biologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology.Born in Mulhouse, France, he studied at the College of Neuchâtel, Switzerland as a student of Louis Agassiz. In 1847, he accompanied Agassiz as his assistant to Harvard...
, 1858) (Blackedge moray) - Gymnothorax niphostigmusGymnothorax niphostigmusGymnothorax niphostigmus is a moray eel found in the northwest Pacific ocean, around Taiwan. It was first named by Chen, Shao and Chen in 1996, and is commonly known as the Snowflake-patched moray....
Ho. Mi. Chen, K. T. Shao & C. T. Chen, 1996 (Snowflake-patched moray) - Gymnothorax nubilus (J. RichardsonJohn Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
, 1848) (Grey moray) - Gymnothorax nudivomerGymnothorax nudivomerGymnothorax nudivomer is a Moray Eel from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 180cm in length....
(Günther, 1867) (Starry moray) - Gymnothorax nuttingiGymnothorax nuttingiGymnothorax nuttingi is a moray eel found in the eastern central Pacific ocean, around Hawaii. It was first named by Snyder in 1904, and is commonly known as Nutting's moray....
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 - Gymnothorax obesus (WhitleyGilbert Percy WhitleyGilbert Percy Whitley was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Osborne House...
, 1932) (Griffin's moray) - Gymnothorax ocellatusGymnothorax ocellatusCaribbean ocellated moray, Gymnothorax ocellatus, is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Louis Agassiz in 1831, and is commonly known as the Caribbean ocellated moray, Blackedge moray, Conger, Ocellated moray, Spotted moray, Sawtooth moray,...
AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
, 1831 (Caribbean ocellated moray) - Gymnothorax panamensisGymnothorax panamensisGymnothorax panamensis is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific ocean. It was first named by Franz Steindachner in 1876, and is commonly known as the Panamic moray or the Masked moray....
(SteindachnerFranz SteindachnerFranz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
, 1876) (Panamic moray) - Gymnothorax pariniGymnothorax pariniGymnothorax parini is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean, around Walters Shoals. It was first named by Collette, Smith and Böhlke in 1991....
Collette, D. G. Smith & E. B. Böhlke, 1991 - Gymnothorax phalarusGymnothorax phalarusGymnothorax phalarus is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific ocean, around Baja, California, Mexico, and Peru. It was first named by Bussing in 1998, and can reach a maximum length of 92.7 centimetres....
Bussing, 1998 - Gymnothorax phasmatodesGymnothorax phasmatodesGymnothorax phasmatodes is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean. It was first named by Smith in 1962, and is commonly known as the Ghost moray or the Ghost moray eel....
(J. L. B. Smith, 1962) (Ghost moray) - Gymnothorax philippinusGymnothorax philippinusGymnothorax philippinus is a moray eel found in the western Pacific ocean, around the Ryukyu Islands and the Philippines. It was first named by Jordan and Seale in 1907, and reaches a maximum length of 60 centimetres....
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:...
& Seale, 1907 - Gymnothorax pictus (J. N. Ahl, 1789) (Peppered moray)
- Gymnothorax pikeiGymnothorax pikeiGymnothorax pikei is a rare moray eel found in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Bliss in 1883, and is commonly known as the Pike's moray. The species is represented by only two specimens - the type specimen discovered in 1883, and a second found in 1962...
Bliss, 1883 (Pike's moray) - Gymnothorax pindaeGymnothorax pindaeGymnothorax pindae 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 Pinda moray....
J. L. B. Smith, 1962 (Pinda moray) - Gymnothorax polygonius Poey, 1875 (Polygon moray)
- Gymnothorax polyspondylusGymnothorax polyspondylusGymnothorax polyspondylus is a moray eel found in the eastern central Pacific, around Hawaii. It was first named by Böhlke and Randall in 2000, and is commonly known as the Manyvertebrae moray....
E. B. Böhlke & Randall, 2000 - Gymnothorax polyuranodonGymnothorax polyuranodonGymnothorax polyuranodon is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian oceans, as well as in regions of freshwater. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1853, and is commonly known as the Freshwater moray, Manytoothed moray, or the Spotted freshwater moray eel. It is somewhat commercial in...
(BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1853) (Freshwater moray) - Gymnothorax porphyreusGymnothorax porphyreusGymnothorax porphyreus is a moray eel found in the south Pacific ocean. It was first named by Guichenot in 1848, and is commonly known as the Lowfin moray....
(GuichenotAlphone GuichenotAntoine Alphone Guichenot was a French zoologist who taught, researched, and participated in specimen collecting trips on behalf of the National Natural History Museum in Paris, including an extensive biological survey of Algeria. His primary fields of research included fish and reptiles...
, 1848) (Lowfin moray) - Gymnothorax prasinus (J. RichardsonJohn Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
, 1848) (Yellow moray) - Gymnothorax prionodon J. D. OgilbyJames Douglas OgilbyJames Douglas Ogilby was an Australian ichthyologist.Ogilby was born in Belfast, Ireland, and was the son of zoologist William Ogilby. He received his education at Winchester College, England, and Trinity College, Dublin.Ogilby worked for the British Museum before joining the Australian Museum in...
, 1895 (Australian mottled moray) - Gymnothorax prismodonGymnothorax prismodonGymnothorax prismodon is a moray eel found in the eastern central Pacific ocean. It was first named by Böhlke and Randall in 2000, and is commonly known as the Sawtooth moray....
E. B. Böhlke & Randall, 2000 - Gymnothorax prolatusGymnothorax prolatusGymnothorax prolatus is a moray eel found in the northwest Pacific ocean, around Taiwan. It was first named by Sasaki and Amaoka in 1991, and can measure up to approximately 40 centimetres....
Sasaki & Amaoka, 1991 - Gymnothorax pseudoherreiGymnothorax pseudoherreiGymnothorax pseudoherrei is a moray eel found in the western central Pacific ocean, around the Philippines. It was first named by Böhlke in 2000, and is commonly known as the False brown moray....
E. B. Böhlke, 2000 - Gymnothorax pseudothyrsoideusGymnothorax pseudothyrsoideusGymnothorax pseudothyrsoideus is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1852, and is commonly known as the Highfin moray, False spotted moray, Mottled moray-eel, or the Yellow-lined reef-eel.-Description:Gymnothorax pseudothyrsoideus can grow to...
(BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1852) (Highfin moray) - Gymnothorax punctatofasciatusGymnothorax punctatofasciatusGymnothorax punctatofasciatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1863, and is commonly known as the Bars'n spots moray....
BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1863 (Bars'n spots moray) - Gymnothorax punctatusGymnothorax punctatusGymnothorax punctatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Red Sea. It was first named by Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Schneider in 1801, and is commonly known as the Red Sea whitespotted moray or the Whitespotted moray....
BlochMarcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
& J. G. SchneiderJohann Gottlob SchneiderJohann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist.-Biography:Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony...
, 1801 (Red Sea whitespotted moray) - Gymnothorax randalliGymnothorax randalliGymnothorax randalli is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Smith and Böhlke in 1997, and can reach a maximum length of approximately 36 centimetres....
D. G. Smith & E. B. Böhlke, 1997 - Gymnothorax reevesii (J. RichardsonJohn Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
, 1845) (Reeve's moray) - Gymnothorax reticularisGymnothorax reticularisGymnothorax reticularis is a moray eel found in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1795, and is commonly known as the Dusky-banded moray, Reticulated morey, Net morey, or the Spotted moray....
BlochMarcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
, 1795 - Gymnothorax richardsoniiGymnothorax richardsoniiGymnothorax richardsonii is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1852, and is commonly known as the Richardson's moray, Little moray, Spotted-lip moray, or the Y-lined moray....
(BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1852) (Richardson's moray) - Gymnothorax robinsiGymnothorax robinsiGymnothorax robinsi is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Böhlke in 1997, and is commonly known as the Pygmy moray....
E. B. Böhlke, 1997 - Gymnothorax rueppelliiGymnothorax rueppelliiGymnothorax rueppellii is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by McClelland in 1844, and is commonly known as the Banded moray, Banded reef-eel, Rüppell's moray, Rüppell's moray eel, Black barred eel, Yellow-headed moray eel, or the Yellow-headed...
(McClelland, 1844) (Banded moray) - Gymnothorax sagenodetaGymnothorax sagenodetaGymnothorax sagenodeta is a moray eel found in the western Indian ocean, around Mauritius. It was first named by John Richardson in 1848....
(J. RichardsonJohn Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
, 1848) - Gymnothorax sagmacephalusGymnothorax sagmacephalusGymnothorax sagmacephalus is a moray eel found in the northwest Pacific ocean, around Japan. It was first named by Böhlke in 1997, and can reach a maximum length of approximately 53 centimetres....
E. B. Böhlke, 1997 - Gymnothorax saxicolaGymnothorax saxicolaThe ocellated moray, Gymnothorax saxicola, is a species of moray eel from the Western Atlantic. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 60cm in length....
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:...
& B. M. DavisBradley Moore DavisBradley Moore Davis was an American botanist, born in Chicago. After graduating from Leland Stanford Junior University, in 1892, he studied at Harvard, Bonn, and Naples. For 11 years he taught at the University of Chicago, from 1902 to 1906 as assistant professor of plant morphology. He held a...
, 1891 (Ocellated moray) - Gymnothorax serratidensGymnothorax serratidensGymnothorax serratidens is a moray eel found in the southeast Pacific ocean, around Peru. It was first named by Hildebrand and Barton in 1949....
(Hildebrand & F. O. BartonOtis BartonFrederick Otis Barton, Jr. was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930. They set the first record for deep-sea diving by descending 600 feet...
, 1949) - Gymnothorax shaoi Ho. Mi. Chen & K. H. Loh, 2007
- Gymnothorax sokotrensisGymnothorax sokotrensisGymnothorax sokotrensis is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean, around Yemen. It was first named by Kotthaus in 1968....
Kotthaus, 1968 - Gymnothorax steindachneriGymnothorax steindachneriGymnothorax steindachneri is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the eastern central Pacific ocean, around Hawaii. It was first named by Jordan and Evermann in 1903, and is commonly known as the Steindachner's moray eel, or the Brown speckled eel....
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:...
& EvermannBarton Warren EvermannBarton Warren Evermann was an American ichthyologist. He was born in Monroe County, Iowa, and graduated from Indiana University in 1886. For 10 years, he served as teacher and superintendent of schools in Indiana and California. He was professor of biology at the Indiana State University in...
, 1903 (Steindachner's moray eel) - Gymnothorax taiwanensisGymnothorax taiwanensisGymnothorax taiwanensis is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the northwest Pacific ocean, around Taiwan. It was first named by Chen, Loh and Shao in 2008, and is commonly known as the Taiwanese moray eel....
Ho. Mi. Chen, K. H. Loh & K. T. Shao, 2008 (Taiwanese moray eel) - Gymnothorax thyrsoideusGymnothorax thyrsoideusGymnothorax thyrsoideus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by John Richardson in 1845, and is commonly known as the Greyface moray, Freckled moray, Slender moray, or the White-eyed moray....
(J. RichardsonJohn Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
, 1845) (Greyface moray) - Gymnothorax tileGymnothorax tileGymnothorax tile is a moray eel found in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Hamilton in 1822, and is commonly known as the freshwater moray, or the Indian mud moray. Gymnothorax tile lives in marine conditions but travels to freshwater for breeding and spawning. G. tile is...
(F. HamiltonFrancis Buchanan-HamiltonDr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India.The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to...
, 1822) - Gymnothorax undulatus (Lacépède, 1803) (Undulated moray)
- Gymnothorax unicolorGymnothorax unicolorGymnothorax unicolor is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Delaroche in 1809, and is commonly known as the Brown moray or the Greek....
(Delaroche, 1809) (Brown moray) - Gymnothorax vagransGymnothorax vagransGymnothorax vagrans is a moray eel found around South America. It was first named by Seale in 1917....
(Seale, 1917) - Gymnothorax verrilliGymnothorax verrilliGymnothorax verrilli is a moray eel found in the eastern central Pacific ocean. It was first named by Jordan and Gilbert in 1883, and is commonly known as the White-edged moray....
(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:...
& C. H. GilbertCharles Henry GilbertCharles Henry Gilbert was a pioneer ichthyologist and fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States. He collected and studied fishes from Central America north to Alaska and described many new species...
, 1883) (White-edged moray) - Gymnothorax vicinusGymnothorax vicinusGymnothorax vicinus is a moray eel found in the Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Francis de Laporte de Castelnau in 1855, and is commonly known as the Purplemouth moray....
(Castelnau, 1855) (Purplemouth moray) - Gymnothorax walvisensis Prokofiev, 2009
- Gymnothorax woodwardiGymnothorax woodwardiGymnothorax woodwardi, commonly known as the Woodward's moray, is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean, around Australia. It was first named by McCulloch in 1912.....
McCullochAlan Riverstone McCullochAlan Riverstone McCulloch was a prominent Australian ichthyologist.McCulloch was born in Sydney, and began his scientific career at the age of 13 as an unpaid assistant to Edgar Ravenswood Waite in the Australian Museum there; Waite encouraged McCulloch to study zoology...
, 1912 - Gymnothorax ypsilonGymnothorax ypsilonGymnothorax ypsilon is a deep-water moray eel found in the Pacific ocean at depths of up to 185 meters. It was first named by Hatooka and Randall in 1992, and is commonly known as the Y-bar moray....
Hatooka & Randall, 1992 (Y-bar moray) - Gymnothorax zonipectisGymnothorax zonipectisGymnothorax zonipectis is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Seale in 1906, and is commonly known as the Barredfin moray, Bar-tail moray, or the Zonipectis moray....
Seale, 1906 (Barredfin moray)