Gymnothorax rueppellii (McClelland 1844)

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

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.10446885
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-8037-FF94-EDFC-CBF81A9C08E2
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Gymnothorax rueppellii (McClelland 1844)
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Gymnothorax rueppellii (McClelland 1844) View in CoL — Banded moray, yellow-headed moray

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland as Gymnothorax rüppelli by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 82), based on ZMH 16483.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 0.—General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa (south to Mozambique) and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Western Australia and Loyalty Islands. Found in crevices in coral reefs, 0–40 m depth. Marine.