dovii, Muraena Günther [A.] 1870:103 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 8; ref. 1995] Panama (Pacific). Holotype (unique): BMNH 1861.8.13.2. Type catalog: Böhlke & Smith 2002:106-107 [ref. 26380]. •Valid as Lycodontis dovii (Günther 1870) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:26 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Gymnothorax dovii (Günther 1870) -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:45 [ref. 22193], McCosker & Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995:1309 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:227 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:153 [ref. 24023], Bussing 1998:444 [ref. 24930], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:103 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:43 [ref. 25640], Böhlke & Smith 2002:106 [ref. 26380], Nelson et al. 2004:61 [ref. 27807], Béarez & Séret 2009:146 [ref. 36646], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:188 [ref. 30957], Smith 2012:14 [ref. 32155], Page et al. 2013:61 [ref. 32708], Fourriére et al. 2016:441 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:606 [ref. 34923], Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018:6 [ref. 36248], González-Murcia et al. 2019:289 [ref. 36544], Dale et al. 2021:314 [ref. 38298], Love et al. 2021:33 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:51 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Gymnothorax dovii (Günther 1870). Muraenidae: Muraeninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California (Mexico) south to Ecuador, ncluding Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.