Uropterygius macrocephalus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Anguilliformes; Muraenidae; Uropterygius; Uropterygius macrocephalus; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818865; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFB0FF9498EAF989F90E3793

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