Description of a new uniformly brown estuarine moray eel (Anguilliformes, Muraenidae) from the Central Indo-Pacific Ocean

A new estuarine moray eel, Uropterygius hades sp. nov., is described based on 14 specimens from Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, southern Indonesia, and Fiji. It is a small-bodied, slender, uniformly dark-brown moray separated from congeners within the U. concolor species complex. The new species can...

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Main Authors: Wen-Chien Huang, Yusuke Hibino, Rodulf Anthony Balisco, Te-Yu Liao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2024-12-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/129685/download/pdf/