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Uropterygius leucurus

Interesting Facts

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Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
    - Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
      - Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
        Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
        Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
        Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
        Superclass: Osteichthyes () - Huxley, 1880
        Class: Osteichthyes () - Huxley, 1880
        Subclass: Actinopterygii ()
        Infraclass: Actinopteri ()
        Cohort: Elopomorpha () - Greenwood et al., 1966
        Order: Anguilliformes ()
        Suborder: Muraenoidei ()
        Family: Muraenidae ()
        Subfamily: Uropterygiinae ()
        Genus: Uropterygius () - Rüppell, 1838
        Specific name: leucurus
        Scientific name: - Uropterygius leucurus

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Uropterygius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species and subspecies in this genus:

U. acutus (Redface Moray) · U. cantonensis (Canton Island Moray) · U. concolor (Brown Moray) · U. fasciolatus (Gosline´s Snake Moray) · U. fuscoguttatus (Brown-Spotted Snake Moray) · U. galapagensis (Hardtail Moray) · U. golanii (Gosline's Snake Moray) · U. inornatus (Black Snake Moray) · U. kamar (Barlip Snakemoray) · U. macrocephalus (Large-Headed Snake Moray) · U. macularius (Marbled Moray) · U. marmoratus (Marbled Eel) · U. micropterus (Shortfin Snake Moray) · U. nagoensis (Nago Snake Moray) · U. necturus (Griffin's Moray) · U. polyspilus (Large-Spotted Snake Moray) · U. polystictus (Many-Spotted Moray) · Scuticaria okinawae (Seale's Moray Eel) · U. supraforatus (Many-Toothed Snake Moray) · U. tigrinus (Tiger Reef Eel) · U. versutus (Two-Holes Moray) · U. xanthopterus (White-Speckled Snake Moray) · U. xenodontus (Black Snake Moray)

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Further Reading

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A list of the fishes of Hawaii, with notes and descriptions of new species, by David Starr Jordan and Eric Knight Jordan. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1922. url p. 17.
A list of the fishes of Hawaii: with notes and descriptions of new species / by David Starr Jordan and Eric Knight Jordan. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1922. url p. 17.
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 216.
Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 206.
NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 5.
The deep-sea fishes [of the Hawaiian Islands] By Charles Henry Gilbert. 1905 Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1905. url p. 701.
The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 206.

Notes

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Contributors

Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3325739
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4111483

Last Revised: 2012-07-28