Uropterygius macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1864)

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scientific name	Uropterygius macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1864)
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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).

References

Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Giraldo, A. & Zapata, F. A. (2014) Tidepool fish assemblages of Gorgona Island, Colombian Pacific coast: a local and regional comparison). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 62 (Supplement 1), 373 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 62 i 0.16362

Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.

Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

Ho, H. - C., Smith, D. G., J. E. McCosker, Y. Hibino, Y., Loh, K. H., Tighe, K. A. & Shao, K. - T. (2015) Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan. Zootaxa, 4060, 140 - 189. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4060.1.16

Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.

Smith, D. G., Bogorodsky, S. V., Mal, A. O. & Alpermann, T. J. (2019) Review of the moray eels (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) of the Red Sea with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 4704, 1 - 87. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4704.1.1