seychellensis, Anarchias Smith [J. L. B.] 1962:429, Pl. 53 (fig. F) [Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University No. 23; ref. 6435] Assumption Island, Aldabra Islands, Seychelles, western Indian Ocean. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 317. Paratypes: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 361-363 (3). Type catalog: Böhlke & Smith 2002:163-164 [ref. 26380]. •Valid as Anarchias seychellensis Smith 1962 -- (Castle & McCosker 1986:166 [ref. 5645], Paxton et al. 1989:127 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:24 [ref. 14125], Böhlke et al. 1989:117 [ref. 13286], Winterbottom et al. 1989:6 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:34 [ref. 15987], Randall et al. 1997:34 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:51 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:40 [ref. 24106], Böhlke et al. 1999:1656 [ref. 24692], Allen 2000:84 [ref. 37268], Böhlke & Randall 2000:263 [ref. 24493], Nakabo 2000:196 [ref. 25086], Böhlke & McCosker 2001:73 [ref. 25226], Randall & Earle 2000:6 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:16 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:196 [ref. 26001], Böhlke & Smith 2002:164 [ref. 26380], Myers & Donaldson 2003:611 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:68 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:6 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:50 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:113 [ref. 28379], McCosker & Stewart 2006:87 [ref. 28702] as cf. seyehcllensis, Allen et al. 2006:245 [ref. 29005], Randall 2007:95 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:14 [ref. 30213], Reece et al. 2010:421 [ref. 30969], Fricke et al. 2011:349 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:76 [ref. 31980], Smith 2012:34 [ref. 32155], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Stewart & McCosker 2015:226 [ref. 34233] as cf. seychellensis, Fricke et al. 2018:33 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:22 [ref. 36883], Smith & Böhlke 2022:70 [ref. 39681], Allen & Erdmann 2024:84 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:79 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Anarchias seychellensis Smith 1962. Muraenidae: Uropterygiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Easter Island (Chile), north to Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands and New Zealand area. Habitat: brackish, marine.
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