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(4, 123134 mm),
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,
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<collectingCountry id="F30DC8B9FFA3FFB663839179FDB8DEF9" box="[417,541,1652,1678]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">Sri Lanka</collectingCountry>
:
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB660059179FD6DDEF9" box="[551,712,1652,1678]" collectionCode="ANSP" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" name="Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">ANSP 138609</specimenCode>
(2, 46122 mm),
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, south side of bay north of harbor, 1022 m,
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(1, 111 mm),
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, 1 mile N of rest house, 15 m,
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB662B591B1FE87DEA0" box="[151,290,1724,1751]" collectionCode="MCZ" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791" name="Museum of Comparative Zoology" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" type="Museum">MCZ 46958</specimenCode>
(2, 140166 mm),
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,
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB6615A91B1FB80DEA0" box="[888,1061,1724,1751]" collectionCode="USNM" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" type="Museum">USNM 357433</specimenCode>
(3, 116155 mm), southeast side of bay at
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, coral heads, 69 m,
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;
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(1, ~200 mm, corresponding to
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OR785803; alive in aquarium at the present time)
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.
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<collectingCountry id="F30DC8B9FFA3FFB660F69009FCFBDF69" box="[724,862,1796,1822]" name="Philippines" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">Philippines</collectingCountry>
:
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB6614B9009FBAEDF68" box="[873,1035,1796,1823]" collectionCode="ANSP" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" name="Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">ANSP 144451</specimenCode>
(7, 102148 mm),
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, 713 m,
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<collectingDate id="EFE05701FFA3FFB663879025FD98DF35" box="[421,573,1832,1858]" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" value="1979-07-03">03 July 1979</collectingDate>
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;
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(1, 152 mm),
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, 04.6 m,
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<collectingDate id="EFE05701FFA3FFB667A29025FEABDF11" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" value="1979-05-04">04 May 1979</collectingDate>
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB6633B9041FE19DF11" box="[281,444,1868,1894]" collectionCode="ANSP" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" name="Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">ANSP 177712</specimenCode>
(7, 115152 mm),
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, west side of
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,
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, 04.6 m,
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<collectingDate id="EFE05701FFA3FFB66391907DFDF6DFFD" box="[435,595,1904,1931]" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" value="1979-05-03">03 May 1979</collectingDate>
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;
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB66043907DFCA3DFFD" box="[609,774,1904,1930]" collectionCode="ANSP" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" name="Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">ANSP 177769</specimenCode>
(1, 174 mm), same as
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB666EC907DFAD6DFFC" box="[1230,1395,1904,1931]" collectionCode="ANSP" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34784" name="Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">ANSP 177775</specimenCode>
(2, 151156 mm), collected with holotype
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;
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB660779099FD7DDFD8" box="[597,728,1940,1967]" collectionCode="CAS" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15690" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34700" name="California Academy of Sciences" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" type="Museum">CAS 52575</specimenCode>
(1, 130 mm), Sulu Prov.,
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,
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<collectingDate id="EFE05701FFA3FFB666B49099FA88DFD9" box="[1174,1325,1940,1967]" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" value="1948-06-23">23 June 1948</collectingDate>
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<specimenCode id="DBBC2052FFA3FFB6671B9099FF78DFA5" collectionCode="CAS-SU" country="0" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/fxd1-0prj" name="California Academy of Sciences, Stanford University Collection" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">CAS-SU 26801</specimenCode>
(1, 118 mm),
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,
<collectorName id="26EFEDFFFFA3FFB6601E90B4FD65DFA4" box="[572,704,1977,2003]" pageId="6" pageNumber="471">Dumaguete</collectorName>
,
<date id="FFA4AEE9FFA3FFB660E990B5FC3ADFA5" box="[715,927,1976,2002]" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" value="1931-06" valueMax="1931-08-31" valueMin="1931-06-00">
<collectingDate id="EFE05701FFA3FFB660E990B5FC3ADFA5" box="[715,927,1976,2002]" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" value="1931-06" valueMax="1931-08-31" valueMin="1931-06-00">JuneAugust 1931</collectingDate>
</date>
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;
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(holotype, female, 147 mm),
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,
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, W side of
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,
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,
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, 04.6 m,
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<collectingDate id="EFE05701FFA3FFB6668090D1FA9BDF81" box="[1186,1342,2012,2039]" pageId="6" pageNumber="471" value="1979-05-03">03 May 1979</collectingDate>
</date>
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(
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(
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:
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(
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):
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Small size, to about
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TL; dorsal-fin origin before gill opening; maxillary teeth biserial; two branchial pores; total vertebrae 111116; plain brown in color, without dark grooves on throat and posterior part of head.
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In TL: preanal length 2.12.4, predorsal length 8.19.6, head length 6.18.7, depth at gill opening 1524, depth at anus 1625. In HL: snout 5.37.8, eye diameter 8.710.6, upper jaw length 2.85.1. Predorsal vertebrae 58, preanal vertebrae 4549, total vertebrae 111116.
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A small eel, maximum size about
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TL, moderately stout. Anus slightly before midlength. Dorsal-fin origin before gill opening (
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). Snout relatively short and tapering, upper and lower jaws equal in length. Eye moderate, over middle of upper jaw. Anterior nostril tubular, barely reaching edge of lip when depressed. Posterior nostril broadly oval, with a low, dark-edged rim, above anterior margin of eye.
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFA2FFB762B59110FEB0DE42" bold="true" box="[151,277,1565,1589]" pageId="7" pageNumber="472">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
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negative color photograph shows the presence and position of the two branchial pores (two black arrows), and the dorsal-fin origin (red arrow);
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photograph shows typical coloration. Photo by J. Dandar.
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Lateral line with two small pores at anterior end of canal, before level of gill opening and near level of dorsal-fin origin (
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). Supraorbital canal with three pores; the first on upper lip, before and below base of anterior nostril; the second lateral to and slightly above base of anterior nostril; the third on top of snout, closer to level of anterior nostril than to eye. Infraorbital canal with three pores; the first slightly behind and below base of anterior nostril; the second on upper lip about midway between level of eye and anterior nostril; the third below anterior margin of eye; the fourth below mideye. Preoperculo-mandibular canal with six pores; the first and smallest at edge of lower lip near anterior end; the second below first infraorbital pore; the third below second infraorbital pore; the fourth below third infraorbital pore; the fifth very slightly before posterior edge of eye; the sixth slightly behind level of rictus.
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862BA979AFEAAD8D8" bold="true" box="[152,271,151,175]" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">TABLE 1.</emphasis>
Number of vertebrae in
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n. sp. and
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. Asterisk indicates the number of vertebrae in the holotype of
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and
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.
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862BD963EFE02D93F" box="[159,423,307,328]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Gymnothorax pseudoherrei</emphasis>
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Maxillary teeth biserial, rows subequal; teeth of the outer row about twice as large as teeth of the inner row. Intermaxillary teeth with a single outer series of about 56 triangular and pointed teeth on each side, increasing in size from anterior to posterior; two median teeth, conical and pointed, the posterior one larger. Vomerine teeth small, uniserial, about 13. Mandibular teeth biserial in juveniles, teeth of the outer row smaller and more numerous, triangular, pointed, becoming smaller posteriorly, about
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number; mandibular teeth generally uniserial in adults, with about two larger teeth anteriorly on each side, the posterior one larger.
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Color (
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): medium brown, head somewhat lighter; a narrow dark ring at anterior margin of eye, some dark pigment at posterior margin of eye; no dark throat grooves, and no obvious markings on body.
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862E595B0FE74DAA0" bold="true" box="[199,465,701,727]" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Size and development.</emphasis>
This is a small species, distinctly smaller than
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; the largest of
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reported by
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was only
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TL. The living individual from
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(USNM 451459) measures approximately
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, it has not grown beyond this size in four years. Indeed, this is one of the smallest known species of
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.
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reported a ripe female as small as
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TL. A specimen of
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TL examined here (USNM 210269) was noticeably swollen and contained large eggs.
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862E5947CFE54DBFC" bold="true" box="[199,497,881,907]" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Distribution and habitat.</emphasis>
This species is known from the
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and
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in the central Indian Ocean eastward to
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,
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, northern
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, the
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,
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,
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,
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, and the
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. It occurs in shallow water; the deepest collection site was
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862E594D0FEEBDB80" bold="true" box="[199,334,989,1015]" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Etymology.</emphasis>
Named for its superficial resemblance to and confusion with
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB8663294D0FB53DB80" box="[1040,1270,989,1015]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Gymnothorax herrei</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862E59328FE9EDC48" bold="true" box="[199,315,1061,1087]" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Remarks.</emphasis>
As explained above,
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB8600E9328FCC5DC48" box="[556,864,1061,1087]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Gymnothorax pseudoherrei</emphasis>
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is one of four species among the group of 12 short brown
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862C79344FEDADC14" box="[229,383,1097,1123]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Gymnothorax</emphasis>
species
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(sensu
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) whose vertebral counts and most of the proportions overlap those of
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862979360FE12DCF0" box="[181,439,1133,1159]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Gymnothorax arabicus</emphasis>
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. It differs from 11 of these by lacking any conspicuous markings. It differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C1AF3AAFFADFFB867159360FA39DCF0" authorityName="Beebe &amp; Tee-Van" authorityYear="1933" box="[1335,1436,1133,1159]" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="8" pageNumber="473" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="herrei">
<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB867159360FA39DCF0" box="[1335,1436,1133,1159]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">G. herrei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C1AF3AAFFADFFB862EA939CFE92DCDC" authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1962" box="[200,311,1169,1195]" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="8" pageNumber="473" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pindae">
<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB862EA939CFE92DCDC" box="[200,311,1169,1195]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">G. pindae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the same characters as
<taxonomicName id="4C1AF3AAFFADFFB86041939CFD4CDCDC" authorityName="Smith &amp; Bogorodsky &amp; Dandar &amp; Zajonz" authorityYear="2024" box="[611,745,1169,1195]" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="8" pageNumber="473" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arabicus">
<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB86041939CFD4CDCDC" box="[611,745,1169,1195]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">G. arabicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
does (see above). It differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C1AF3AAFFADFFB86644939CFB4EDCDC" authorityName="Smith &amp; Bogorodsky &amp; Dandar &amp; Zajonz" authorityYear="2024" box="[1126,1259,1169,1195]" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="8" pageNumber="473" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arabicus">
<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB86644939CFB4EDCDC" box="[1126,1259,1169,1195]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">G. arabicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
primarily in its smaller size (not exceeding
<quantity id="4CE225CCFFADFFB863F293B8FD88DCA7" box="[464,557,1205,1232]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" pageId="8" pageNumber="473" unit="mm" value="200.0">200 mm</quantity>
TL vs. up to about
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TL), the lack of dark throat and head grooves, and slightly fewer total vertebrae (111116 vs. 114120). In addition, it differs genetically from
<taxonomicName id="4C1AF3AAFFADFFB866BF93D4FA84DC84" authorityName="Smith &amp; Bogorodsky &amp; Dandar &amp; Zajonz" authorityYear="2024" box="[1181,1313,1241,1267]" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="8" pageNumber="473" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arabicus">
<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB866BF93D4FA84DC84" box="[1181,1313,1241,1267]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">G. arabicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA58829FFADFFB862E593F0FEADDDF3" blockId="8.[151,1437,413,1412]" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BF5D8FFADFFB862E593F0FE44DD60" author="Allen, G. R. &amp; Erdmann, M. V." box="[199,481,1277,1303]" pageId="8" pageNumber="473" refId="ref6970" refString="Allen, G. R. &amp; Erdmann, M. V. (2012) Reef fishes of the East Indies. Volumes I - III. Tropical Reef Research, Perth, 1260 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1896 / 054.064.0104" type="book" year="2012">Allen &amp; Erdmann (2012)</bibRefCitation>
included the species in their book and reproduced a photograph of it with the locality given as
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. However, they used a photograph taken by J.E. Randall from Jana Island in the Arabian Gulf, and the specimen in fact is
<taxonomicName id="4C1AF3AAFFADFFB863B89248FDBBDD28" authorityName="Smith &amp; Bogorodsky &amp; Dandar &amp; Zajonz" authorityYear="2024" box="[410,542,1349,1375]" family="Muraenidae" genus="Gymnothorax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="8" pageNumber="473" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="arabicus">
<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB863B89248FDBBDD28" box="[410,542,1349,1375]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">G. arabicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. A photograph of the true
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<emphasis id="B96E543BFFADFFB861649248FBDFDD28" box="[838,1146,1349,1375]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="473">Gymnothorax pseudoherrei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has never been published until now.
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