CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Please login if you have access to particular applications.
Username:
Password:

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Anguilliformes (order)  »  Muraenidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 060063 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Gymnothorax obesus   (Whitley, 1932)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

Image by: G.P. Whitley, 1932 - Studies in ichthyology. No. 6
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Rights: G.P. Whitley, 1932 - Studies in ichthyology. No. 6
Family: 37 60 Muraenidae (Moray Eels) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Speckled Moray
Organism Type: a moray eel
Synonyms: Uropterygius obesus
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes: 37 060900     Gymnothorax spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
060063
Distribution map:
View detailed map or click on map to see same.

Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-05-27.
Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 73 to 128 m.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:df0bce10-913c-44a0-b794-982bb0170185
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 3821
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271864
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
<
NCMI Information and Data Centre  »  Applications  »  CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota