WoRMS taxon details
Gymnothorax mordax (Ayres, 1859)
271856 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271856)
accepted
Species
Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859) Ayres, W. O. (1859). [Descriptions of fishes.]. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 2 (1858-1862): 25-32. [Read at meeting of 17 Oct. 1859, assume published in 1859. Accompanying figures 4-10, pp. 54-59, published in 1860.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gymnothorax mordax (Ayres, 1859). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271856 on 2025-04-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859) Ayres, W. O. (1859). [Descriptions of fishes.]. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 2 (1858-1862): 25-32. [Read at meeting of 17 Oct. 1859, assume published in 1859. Accompanying figures 4-10, pp. 54-59, published in 1860.]. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnothorax mordax)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859)
To FishBase images (Gymnothorax mordax, by Gotshall, D.W.)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnothorax mordax)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859)
To FishBase images (Gymnothorax mordax, by Gotshall, D.W.)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Muraena mordax Ayres, 1859)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
