Uropterygius
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Uropterygius 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
- Uropterygius concolorUropterygius concolorUropterygius concolor is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Rüppell in 1838, and is commonly known as the Unicolor snake moray, Uniform reef-eel, Brown reef-eel, Brown moray eel, or the Brown moray. It is mostly dull brown in colour, with the...
RüppellEduard RüppellWilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell was a German naturalist and explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to "Rueppell" for the English alphabet....
, 1838 (Unicolor snake moray) - Uropterygius fasciolatusUropterygius fasciolatusUropterygius fasciolatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western central Pacific ocean. It was first named by Regan in 1909, and is commonly known as the Blotched moray, Barred moray, or the Gosline's snake moray....
(Regan, 1909) (Blotched moray) - Uropterygius fuscoguttatusUropterygius fuscoguttatusUropterygius fuscoguttatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the Brown spotted snake moray, Brown snake moray, or the Finless moray. It is mostly dark brown in colour, with darker brown spots approaching the tail....
L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Brown spotted snake moray) - Uropterygius genieUropterygius genieUropterygius genie is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean, specifically the Red Sea....
Randall & Golani, 1995 - Uropterygius golaniiUropterygius golaniiUropterygius golanii is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean, in the northern Red Sea. It is grayish-brown in colour....
McCosker & D. G. Smith, 1997 - Uropterygius inornatusUropterygius inornatusUropterygius inornatus is a moray eel found in the western Indian Ocean, in the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. It is commonly known as the Drab snake moray. It is faded tan in colour....
Gosline, 1958 (Drab snake moray) - Uropterygius kamarUropterygius kamarUropterygius kamar is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the Barlip reef-eel, Barlip snakemoray, Moon moray, or the Moon snake moray....
McCosker & Randall, 1977 (Barlip reef-eel) - Uropterygius macrocephalusUropterygius macrocephalusUropterygius macrocephalus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the Needle-tooth moray, Large-headed snake moray, Largehead snake moray, Largehead moray, Longhead moray, or the Snowflake eel. It is used sometimes in aquariums....
(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) (Needle-tooth moray) - Uropterygius maculariusUropterygius maculariusUropterygius macularius is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. It is commonly known as the Marbled moray....
(LesueurCharles Alexandre LesueurCharles Alexandre Lesueur was a French naturalist, artist and explorer.Pictured here is the oil portrait by Charles Willson Peale of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur...
, 1825) (Marbled moray) - Uropterygius marmoratusUropterygius marmoratusUropterygius marmoratus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the Marbled reef-eel, Marbled eel, Marbled snake moray, Marbled moray, or the Slender conger eel....
(Lacépède, 1803) (Marbled reef-eel) - Uropterygius micropterusUropterygius micropterusUropterygius micropterus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the Tidepool snake moray, Shortfin snake moray, or the Shortfinned 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....
, 1852) (Tidepool snake moray) - Uropterygius nagoensisUropterygius nagoensisUropterygius nagoensis is a moray eel found in the western Pacific Ocean. It was first named by Kiyotaka Hatooka in 1984, and is commonly known as the Nago snake moray....
Hatooka, 1984 - Uropterygius oligospondylus Ho. Mi. Chen, Randall & K. H. Loh, 2008 (Few-vertebrae moray)
- Uropterygius polyspilusUropterygius polyspilusUropterygius polyspilus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the Large-spotted snake moray....
(Regan, 1909) (Large-spotted snake moray) - Uropterygius polystictusUropterygius polystictusUropterygius polystictus is a moray eel found in coral reefs around Mexico and the Galapagos Islands. It is commonly known as the Many-spotted moray, or the Peppered moray....
MyersGeorge S. MyersDr. George Sprague Myers spent most of his career at Stanford University, where he was one of the leading American ichthyologists of the twentieth century. He served as the editor of Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin as well as president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists...
& Wade, 1941 (Many-spotted moray) - Uropterygius supraforatusUropterygius supraforatusUropterygius supraforatus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It is commonly known as the Many-toothed snake moray, or the Toothy snakemoray....
(Regan, 1909) (Many-toothed snake moray) - Uropterygius versutusUropterygius versutusUropterygius versutus is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific ocean, from Mexico to Panama. It is commonly known as the Two-holes moray, or the Crafty moray. It dwells on sand and between rocks on ocean floors....
Bussing, 1991 (Two-holes moray) - Uropterygius wheeleriUropterygius wheeleriUropterygius wheeleri is a moray eel found in shallow waters in the eastern Atlantic ocean, around Cape Verde, Senago, and islands in the Bay of Biafra....
Blache, 1967 - Uropterygius xanthopterusUropterygius xanthopterusUropterygius xanthopterus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It is commonly known as the Freckleface reef-eel, Spottedface moray, or the White-speckled snake 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....
, 1859 (Freckleface reef-eel) - Uropterygius xenodontusUropterygius xenodontusUropterygius xenodontus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific ocean. It is commonly known as the Black snake moray, Strange-toothed snake moray, or the Wedgetooth snakemoray....
McCosker & D. G. Smith, 1997 (Black snake moray)