zonipectis, Gymnothorax Seale [A.] 1906:7, Fig. 1 [Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History v. 4 (no. 1); ref. 3999] Tahiti, Society Islands, South Pacific. Holotype (unique): BPBM 1362. Type catalog: Böhlke & Smith 2002:156 [ref. 26380]. •Valid as Gymnothorax zonipectis Seale 1906 -- (Castle & McCosker 1986:173 [ref. 5645], Allen & Swainston 1988:32 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:132 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:10 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:41 [ref. 15987], Chen et al. 1994:53 [ref. 22258], Quéro & Saldanha 1995:68 [ref. 22017], Allen 1997:52 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:41 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:50 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:55 [ref. 24106], Böhlke et al. 1999:1657 [ref. 24692], Allen 2000:84 [ref. 37268] as zonipectus, Nakabo 2000:208 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:585 [ref. 25122], Randall & Earle 2000:7 [ref. 25806], Böhlke & McCosker 2001:73 [ref. 25226], Hutchins 2001:17 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:208 [ref. 26001], Böhlke & Smith 2002:156 [ref. 26380], Allen & Adrim 2003:23 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:611 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:12 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:7 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:48 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:125 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:257 [ref. 29005], Randall 2007:75[ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:17 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:73 [ref. 31256], Zhang et al. 2010:279 [ref. 31511], Fricke et al. 2011:351 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:95 [ref. 31980], Smith 2012:29 [ref. 32155], Larson et al. 2013:26 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:20 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Ho et al. 2015:162 [ref. 34130], Koeda et al. 2016:8 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:39 [ref. 35805], Zajonz et al. 2019:62 [ref. 36871], Eudeline 2022:146 [ref. 39191], Smith & Böhlke 2022:66 [ref. 39681], Allen & Erdmann 2024:105 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Gymnothorax zonipectis Seale 1906. Muraenidae: Muraeninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte (France), Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Society Islands and Marquesas Islands, north to Taiwan and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Great Barrier Reef (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.
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