Biology:Uropterygius
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Uropterygius is a genus of moray eels in the family Muraenidae.
Species
There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Uropterygius concolor Rüppell, 1838 (Unicolor snake moray)
- Uropterygius cyamommatus Huang, Liao & Tan, 2023 [2]
- Uropterygius fasciolatus (Regan, 1909) (Blotched moray)
- Uropterygius fuscoguttatus L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Brown spotted snake moray)
- Uropterygius genie J. E. Randall & Golani, 1995
- Uropterygius golanii McCosker & D. G. Smith, 1997
- Uropterygius hades Huang, Hibino, Balisco & Liao, 2024[3] (Hades' snake moray)
- Uropterygius inornatus Gosline, 1958 (Drab snake moray)
- Uropterygius kamar McCosker & J. E. Randall, 1977 (Barlip reef-eel)
- Uropterygius macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1864) (Needle-tooth moray)
- Uropterygius mactanensis Huang, Balisco, Evacitas & Liao, 2023[4]
- Uropterygius macularius (Lesueur, 1825) (Marbled moray)
- Uropterygius marmoratus (Lacépède, 1803) (Marbled reef-eel)
- Uropterygius micropterus (Bleeker, 1852) (Tidepool snake moray)
- Uropterygius nagoensis Hatooka, 1984
- Uropterygius oligospondylus I. S. Chen, J. E. Randall & K. H. Loh, 2008
- Uropterygius polyspilus (Regan, 1909) (Large-spotted snake moray)
- Uropterygius polystictus G. S. Myers & Wade, 1941 (Many-spotted moray)
- Uropterygius supraforatus (Regan, 1909) (Many-toothed snake moray)
- Uropterygius versutus W. A. Bussing, 1991 (Two-holes moray)
- Uropterygius wheeleri Blache, 1967
- Uropterygius xanthopterus Bleeker, 1859 (Freckleface reef-eel)
- Uropterygius xenodontus McCosker & D. G. Smith, 1997 (Black snake moray)
Formerly included species
- Anarchias cantonensis – formerly Uropterygius cantonensis
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Uropterygius in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ↑ Wen-Chien Huang, Te-Yu Liao and Heok Hui Tan. 2023. Uropterygius cyamommatus, A New Moray Eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from Anchialine Caves in Christmas Island, Australia, and Panglao Island, the Philippines. Raffles. Bull. Zool. 71; 268–278.
- ↑ Huang, Wen-Chien; Hibino, Yusuke; Balisco, Rodulf Anthony; Liao, Te-Yu (2024-12-09). "Description of a new uniformly brown estuarine moray eel (Anguilliformes, Muraenidae) from the Central Indo-Pacific Ocean". ZooKeys (1220): 15–34. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.1220.129685. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 39698230. Bibcode: 2024ZooK.1220...15H.
- ↑ Huang, Wen-Chien; Balisco, Rodulf Anthony; Evacitas, Florence Chan; Liao, Te-Yu (2023). "Description of a new moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from the Philippines, with a preliminary assessment of genetic and morphological variations of the Uropterygius concolor species complex" (in en). Journal of Fish Biology 103 (3): 593–602. doi:10.1111/jfb.15472. ISSN 1095-8649. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jfb.15472.
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