Uropterygius xanthopterus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Found in crevices of shallow reefs, as well as drop-offs [1].

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,214 meters (0 to -17,106 feet).[2]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Uropterygius alboguttatus Smith

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 29-Nov-1996

Similar Species

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

• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 102, p. 11.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 206.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 133.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 6.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1979- url p. 19, p. 22.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 292.
• 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.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L. F. de Beaufort Leiden, E. J. Brill ltd., 1911- url p. 454.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• Moore, Jon A. (from FishBase).
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bishop Museum Data (OBIS distribution) (USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 140570
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-32286
• Fishbase Species ID: 7287
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 161261
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 127436

Footnotes

1. Myers, R.F. (1991). Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p. [back]
2. Mean = -2,008.950 meters (-6,591.043 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,636.240 based on 55 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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