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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Museum: Baie de la Petite Rivière, Albion, USNM 342114, 342115. Trou-aux-Biches lagoon, USNM 342116. Passe de l'Ambulante, Le Morne, USNM 342117. Tidal pools at Bel Air, USNM 342118 (Ref. 33390).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/mp.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://ncb.intnet.mu/fishco/index.htm
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Fricke, R., 1999
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Common names from other countries

White-lippe moray eel, Minami-utsubo, 钱鳗, ... more

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Muraenidae (Moray eels) > Muraeninae
Etymology: Gymnothorax: Greek, gymnos = naked + Greek, thorax, -akos = breast (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Bleeker.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 1 - 45 m (Ref. 11441), usually ? - 5 m. Tropical

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Indo-Pacific: South Africa and Oman to the Hawaiian and Society islands, north to the Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to northern Australia and the Loyalty Islands.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 50.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2334)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 0; Vertebrae: 121 - 133. Body light brown, with dendritic pattern. Corner of mouth with a dark brown spot, preceded on lower lip by a large white blotch (often followed by another above and behind corner of mouth); upper and lower jaw pores usually in prominent white spots. Vertebrae 121-133.

Occurs in shallow coastal reef flats, usually found in less than 5 m water depth, but ranges to deep water rubble reefs (Ref. 48635). Benthic (Ref. 58302).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Chen, H.-M., K.-T. Shao and C.T. Chen, 1994. A review of the muraenid eels (Family Muraenidae) from Taiwan with descriptions of twelve new records. Zool. Stud. 33(1):44-64. (Ref. 6934)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 17 August 2011

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00054 (0.00035 - 0.00082), b=3.24 (3.12 - 3.36), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.9 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (40 of 100).

Gymnothorax chilospilus Bleeker, 1864