Species that contain: Haliophis and guttatus [ 2 ] records

guttata, Muraena Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:x, 22 [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. No types known. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:30 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Haliophis guttatus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:232 [ref. 29757], Winterbottom 1986:24 [ref. 5727], Winterbottom & Randall 1994:751 [ref. 22087], Goren & Dor 1994:28 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:145 [ref. 22896], Fricke 1999:215 [ref. 24106], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S105 [ref. 27377], Fricke 2008:30 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:49 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2018:160 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:68 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:27 [ref. 36883], Zajonz et al. 2019:72 [ref. 36871], Winterbottom & Santini 2022:122 [ref. 39749]). Current status: Valid as Haliophis guttatus (Forsskål 1775). Pseudochromidae: Congrogadinae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius). Habitat: marine.

maculata, Muraena Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1800:265 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] Arabia. Unnecessary replacement name for Muraena guttata Forsskål 1775. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:124 (vol. 6) [ref. 30473]. •Synonym of Haliophis guttatus (Forsskål 1775) based on status of guttatus. Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Haliophis guttatus (Forsskål 1775). Pseudochromidae: Congrogadinae. Habitat: marine.