Scuticaria okinawae

Scuticaria okinawae is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[2] It is commonly known as the shorttailed snake moray, shorttail moray, Seale's moray eel, or the Bennett's moray.[3]

Muraena australiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Scuticaria
Species:
S. okinawae
Binomial name
Scuticaria okinawae

Description

The shorttail moray is uniform gray or brown in color, and attains a length of up to 90.5 centimetres (35.6 in) SL.[4]

Taxonomy

Scutaria okinawae was previously referred to as Gymnomuraena bennetti, Scuticaria bennetti, or Uropterygius bennetti in a number of publications (Smith 1962; McCosker et al. 1984; Randall 1996). However, Böhlke and McCosker (1997) demonstrated that Gymnomuraena bennetti is a junior synonym of Channomuraena vittata, so they resurrected okinawae for the eel previously misidentified as bennetti. Uropterygius unicolor Seale, 1917 (given the unnecessary replacement name U. sealei Whitley, 1932) and Gymnomuraena brevicauda Regan, 1903 are synonyms.[5]

References
  1. Jordan, David Starr; Snyder, John Otterbein (1901). "A Review of the Apodal Fishes or Eels of Japan, with Descriptions of Nineteen New Species". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 23 (1239): 886–887.
  2. Scuticaria okinawae at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Common names for Scuticaria okinawae at www.fishbase.org.
  4. Randall, J.E., 2007. Reef and shore fishes of the Hawaiian Islands. Sea Grant College Program, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu. i-xivb + 1-546.
  5. Böhlke, E.B. and J.E. McCosker, 1997. Review of the moray eel genus Scuticaria and included species (Pisces: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae: Uropterygiinae). Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 148:171-176.


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