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shares the following combination of characters: body uniform brown, anus at about mid-point of body; snout blunt and moderate; eyes comparatively large and slightly closer to rictus than to tip of snout; dorsal-fin margin black; 2 branchial pores; 6 mandibular pores; sharply pointed and depressible teeth; intermaxillary teeth biserial, maxillary teeth uniserial; pre-dorsal vertebrae 7, pre-anal vertebrae 70–74, and total vertebrae 163–169.
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Proportions of total length: preanal length 1.9–2.1, predorsal length 11.7–12.3, head length (HL) 8.4–8.8, depth at gill opening 27.1–30.0, depth at anus 27.4–30.8. Proportions of head length: snout 4.6–5.5, horizontal eye diameter 8.8–11.0, upper jaw length 2.3–2.8, lower jaw length 2.5–3.1. Vertebrae: predorsal 7, preanal 70–74, total 163–169.
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<taxonomicName id="0C9C3C8FFF9D9D37FEA033B43D3EFB20" authority="Mohapatra & Smith & Mohanty & Mishra & Tudu, 2017" authorityName="Mohapatra & Smith & Mohanty & Mishra & Tudu" authorityYear="2017" box="[281,554,1186,1207]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="281" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="visakhaensis" status="sp. nov.">
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<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9D9D37FEA033B43D3EFB20" box="[281,554,1186,1207]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="281">Gymnothorax visakhaensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="E2DB2665FF9D9D37FD8833B43D95FB20" box="[561,641,1186,1207]" pageId="2" pageNumber="281" rank="species">
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<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9D9D37FD8833B43D95FB20" bold="true" box="[561,641,1186,1207]" pageId="2" pageNumber="281">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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</taxonomicNameLabel>
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(Holotype, 308 mm TL). Pin denotes the origin of the dorsal and anal fins.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<caption id="9FE31784FF9D9D37FF2E30093B3CF8C4" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/838300/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="281" targetBox="[176,1436,1283,1777]" targetPageId="2">
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<paragraph id="CB23470CFF9D9D37FF2E30093B3CF8C4" blockId="2.[151,1436,1823,1876]" pageId="2" pageNumber="281">
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<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9D9D37FF2E30093E0CF8A3" bold="true" box="[151,280,1823,1845]" pageId="2" pageNumber="281">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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Lateral view of head and head pores of
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<taxonomicName id="0C9C3C8FFF9D9D37FD6630363CE1F8A2" authority="Mohapatra & Smith & Mohanty & Mishra & Tudu, 2017" authorityName="Mohapatra & Smith & Mohanty & Mishra & Tudu" authorityYear="2017" box="[735,1013,1824,1845]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="281" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="visakhaensis" status="sp. nov.">
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<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9D9D37FD6630363CE1F8A2" box="[735,1013,1824,1845]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="281">Gymnothorax visakhaensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="E2DB2665FF9D9D37FBB830363B43F8A2" box="[1025,1111,1824,1845]" pageId="2" pageNumber="281" rank="species">
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<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9D9D37FBB830363B43F8A2" bold="true" box="[1025,1111,1824,1845]" pageId="2" pageNumber="281">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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</taxonomicNameLabel>
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(BP = branchial pore, IOP = infraorbital pore, MP = mandibular pore, PN = posterior nostril, SOP = supraorbital pore).
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<paragraph id="CB23470CFF9D9D36FF7E30963D27FF60" blockId="2.[151,1436,1920,2017]" lastBlockId="3.[151,1437,151,501]" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="282" pageId="2" pageNumber="281">
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The dental pattern is shown in
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<figureCitation id="53A75B89FF9D9D37FDFB30963D9FF80E" box="[578,651,1920,1945]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[544,1045,572,1947]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[514,1070,553,1962]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 3. Dentition on upper jaw and lower jaw of Gymnothorax visakhaensis sp. nov." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/838302/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="281">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
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||
. Teeth in jaws smooth, needle-like, enlarged, sharply pointed and depressible. Intermaxillary teeth biserial, enlarged and fang-like, outer and inner series with 4 teeth on each side, outer row with one tooth near the mid-point of the two sides (1st median teeth); inner row also with one median tooth (
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<figureCitation id="53A75B89FF9C9D36FF5C37813E3BFF27" box="[229,303,151,176]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1621,1643]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,155,1599]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[151,1435,155,1599]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 4. Biserial intermaxillary teeth in upper jaw of Gymnothorax visakhaensis sp. nov." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/838304/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
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||
). Maxillary teeth uniserial, about 14 on each side. Vomerine teeth 5–6, uniserial. Dentary teeth uniserial with 12–14 teeth in each side, however in one specimen (ZSI F 12076/2; TL:
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||
<quantity id="0C64EAE9FF9C9D36FB3437AA3BFAFF43" box="[1165,1262,188,212]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.88" pageId="3" pageNumber="282" unit="mm" value="288.0">288 mm</quantity>
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) the dentary is biserial with 5 teeth in the inner row.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="CB23470CFF9C9D36FF7E36123BF5FEF3" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,501]" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">
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<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9C9D36FF7E36123E01FE8B" box="[199,277,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">Colour</emphasis>
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||
. Body uniformly dark brown without spots or patterns. Ventral portion of lower jaw to gill opening slightly lighter brown than rest of body. Snout darker (almost black) in comparison to rest of body. Margin of dorsal and anal fins black. Eye rim pale white. On preservation in formalin, the colour remains the same.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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||
<subSubSection id="83861487FF9C9D36FF7E36793FFAFE3A" pageId="3" pageNumber="282" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="CB23470CFF9C9D36FF7E36793FFAFE3A" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,501]" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">
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||
<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9C9D36FF7E36793E74FE1F" bold="true" box="[199,352,367,392]" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">Distribution.</emphasis>
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||
The species is currently known only from the
|
||
<collectingRegion id="095889EEFF9C9D36FC3636793B53FE1F" box="[911,1095,367,392]" country="India" name="Andhra Pradesh" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">Andhra Pradesh</collectingRegion>
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||
coast of
|
||
<collectingCountry id="B38B079CFF9C9D36FB0036793BE7FE1F" box="[1209,1267,367,392]" name="India" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">India</collectingCountry>
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||
in the Bay of Bengal.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="83861487FF9C9D36FF7E36AE3EE8FE62" pageId="3" pageNumber="282" type="etymology">
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||
<paragraph id="CB23470CFF9C9D36FF7E36AE3EE8FE62" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,501]" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">
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||
<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9C9D36FF7E36AE3E5AFE47" bold="true" box="[199,334,440,464]" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">Etymology.</emphasis>
|
||
The species is named
|
||
<taxonomicName id="0C9C3C8FFF9C9D36FD3E36AE3CD5FE47" authorityName="Mohapatra & Smith & Mohanty & Mishra & Tudu" authorityYear="2017" box="[647,961,440,464]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="282" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="visakhaensis">
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||
<emphasis id="F9E89B1EFF9C9D36FD3E36AE3CD5FE47" box="[647,961,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="282">Gymnothorax visakhaensis</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
with reference to the collection site Visakhapatnam fishing harbour.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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||
</treatment>
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