panamensis, Muraena Steindachner [F.] 1876:67 [19] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 74 (1. Abth.); ref. 4225] (Pacific) Panama. Holotype (unique): NMW (not found). Type catalog: Böhlke & Smith 2002:134 [ref. 26380]. •Valid as Rabula panamensis (Steindachner 1876) -- (Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:126 [ref. 24555]). •Valid as Gymnothorax panamensis (Steindachner 1876) -- (Pequeño 1989:25 [ref. 14125], Allen & Robertson 1994:46 [ref. 22193], McCosker & Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995:1311 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:227 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:154 [ref. 24023], Böhlke 2000:404 [ref. 24954], Thomson et al. 2000:44 [ref. 25640], Böhlke & Smith 2002:134 [ref. 26380], Nelson et al. 2004:61 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:18 [ref. 37547], Randall 2005:39 [ref. 28239], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:188 [ref. 30957], Smith 2012:23 [ref. 32155], Page et al. 2013:61 [ref. 32708], Ray et al. 2015:143 [ref. 33981], Fourriére et al. 2016:441 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:606 [ref. 34923], Mohapatra et al. 2018:126 [ref. 35948], Dale et al. 2021:315 [ref. 38298], Love et al. 2021:34 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:52 [ref. 40505], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Gymnothorax panamensis (Steindachner 1876). Muraenidae: Muraeninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Chile, including Gulf of California (Mexico), Guadalupe Island (Mexico) and Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.