pseudothyrsoidea, Muraena Bleeker [P.] 1853:778 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 3 (no. 5); ref. 335] Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1867.11.28.246. Type catalog: Böhlke & Smith 2002:142 [ref. 26380]. Original as pseudothyrsoïdea. •Valid as Gymnothorax pseudothyrsoideus (Bleeker 1853) -- (Hatooka in Masuda et al. 1984:24 [ref. 6441], Paxton et al. 1989:131 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:40 [ref. 15987], Chen et al. 1994:52 [ref. 22258], Randall 1995:57 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:54 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:40 [ref. 25919], Böhlke et al. 1999:1656 [ref. 24692], Johnson 1999:721 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:209 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:585 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:32 [ref. 25480], Böhlke & McCosker 2001:73 [ref. 25226], Hutchins 2001:17 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:209 [ref. 26001], Böhlke & Smith 2002:142 [ref. 26380], Allen & Adrim 2003:23 [ref. 26830] as pseudothyrsoidea, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], Allen et al. 2006:256 [ref. 29005], Chen et al. 2008:134 [ref. 29929], Imamura 2009:19 [ref. 30434], Zhang et al. 2010:274 [ref. 31511], Fricke et al. 2011:350 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:91 [ref. 31980], Smith 2012:25 [ref. 32155], Larson et al. 2013:25 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:21 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:146 [ref. 34104], Ho et al. 2015:160 [ref. 34130], Koeda et al. 2016:7 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:29 [ref. 35490], Jawad et al. 2018:94 [ref. 36262], Kang et al. 2018:300 [ref. 36290], Hoschke et al. 2019:153 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:62 [ref. 36871] as cf. pseudothyrsoides, Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 5 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:53 [ref. 39118], Ramos-Castro et al. 2020:83 [ref. 37651], Sonoyama et al. 2020:16 [ref. 37637], Huang et al. 2022:[3] [ref. 39471], Huang et al. 2022:100 [ref. 39626], Smith & Böhlke 2022:62 [ref. 39681], Allen & Erdmann 2024:101 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Gymnothorax pseudothyrsoideus (Bleeker 1853). Muraenidae: Muraeninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf and Seychelles east to Philippines, New Guinea, Samoa and Marquesas Islands, north to southern Korea and Japan, south to Bunbury (Western Australia), southern New South Wales (Australia), and New Caledonia. Hybridizes with Gymnothorax reevesii (Richardson 1845). Habitat: marine.
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