Uropterygius macrocephalus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Anguilliformes; Muraenidae; Uropterygius; Uropterygius macrocephalus; Yukon; Baja; Galapagos; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Galindo; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818865; https://zenodo.org/record/5818865

Uropterygius macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1864). Largehead Moray , Longhead Moray, or Needle-tooth Moray. To 49 cm (19.2 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to at least Taiwan (Ho et al. 2015); Punta Marquez (23°56.8’N, 110°52.2’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru (Robertson and Allen 2002), including Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: intertidal to at least 15 m (49 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Smith et al. 2019). : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Ho, H. - C., Smith, D. G., J. E. McCosker, Y. Hibino, Y., Loh, K. H., Tighe, K. A. & Shao, K. - T. (2015) Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan. Zootaxa, 4060, 140 - 189. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4060.1.16", "Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.", "Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.", "Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.", "Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Giraldo, A. & Zapata, F. A. (2014) Tidepool fish assemblages of Gorgona Island, Colombian Pacific coast: a local and regional comparison). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 62 (Supplement 1), 373 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 62 i 0.16362", "Smith, D. G., Bogorodsky, S. V., Mal, A. O. & Alpermann, T. J. (2019) Review of the moray eels (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) of the Red Sea with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 4704, 1 - 87. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4704.1.1"]}