Uropterygius macrocephalus

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)...

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

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