Gymnomuraena Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1803:648 Fem. Gymnomuraena doliata Lacepède 1803. Type by subsequent designation. Earliest valid type designation possibly Jordan & Evermann 1896:402 [ref. 2443]; not G. pantherina as designated by Bleeker 1865:74 [ref. 4860]. •Valid as Gymnomuraena Lacepède 1803 -- (Hatooka in Masuda et al. 1984:25 [ref. 6441], Böhlke et al. 1989:130 [ref. 13286], Chen et al. 1994:48 [ref. 22258], Böhlke & Randall 2000:224 [ref. 24493], Böhlke et al. 1999:1645 [ref. 24692], Allen et al. 2006:247 [ref. 29005], Imamura 2009:17 [ref. 30434], Zhang et al. 2010:241 [ref. 31511], Smith 2012:10 [ref. 32155], Fricke et al. 2018:34 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:20 [ref. 36273], Ramos-Castro et al. 2020:83 [ref. 37651]). Current status: Valid as Gymnomuraena Lacepède 1803. Muraenidae: Muraeninae.