Uropterygius concolor Rüppell 1838

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 52-53

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5580051
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-8037-FF93-EDFC-C9A81BA60E84
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Uropterygius concolor Rüppell 1838
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Uropterygius concolor Rüppell 1838 View in CoL — Brown snakemoray

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Kavieng, New Ireland by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 82), based on ZMH 15546 . NTUM 11409 (1 specimen, 02°34.075'S 150°37.469'E, St. KB58, 22 June 2014 GoogleMaps ).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Line and Society islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Found on shallow reefs and in mangrove habitats, 1–12 m depth. Transitional water and marine.