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, pl. 105 (
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(unique), ZMB 7782 (stuffed).—
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None.
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In TL: preanal length 2.02.2, predorsal length 9.411, head length 7.68.8, body depth at anus 1924. In head length: snout length 5.16.7, eye diameter 9.411, upper-jaw length 2.53.0. Pores: LL 2, SO 3, IO 4, POM 6. Vertebrae: predorsal 56, preanal 6164, total 139148.
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Teeth smooth, conical to narrowly triangular; intermaxillary teeth in a single peripheral series of about 4 on each side, 2 or 3 median teeth. Maxillary teeth biserial, 23 larger inner teeth and about
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smaller outer teeth. Dentary with 2 or 3 large teeth anteriorly followed by about 1114 smaller teeth, the larger teeth sometimes distinctly medial to smaller teeth. Vomerine teeth uniserial in young, biserial in adults.
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: body and head white covered with numerous, polygonal, black spots separated by narrow interspaces often forming a honeycomb-like pattern. Spots larger and more widely separated in young.
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Maximum size at least
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF9B693DFF0AFE97FE35FEC3" bold="true" box="[199,503,260,287]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Distribution and habitat.</emphasis>
Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific from the southern Red Sea south to
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, east to
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and
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. Occurs on coral and rocky reefs from depths of
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; feeds on fishes and octopuses.
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF9B693DFF0AFEE2FEF9FE57" bold="true" box="[199,315,369,395]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Remarks.</emphasis>
The record from the Red Sea is based on a photograph taken at Hanish Island off
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(
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). The three specimens examined from
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have fewer vertebrae (139141) than the four specimens from
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(146148). This species has been confused with other dark-spotted species such as
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF9B693DFB77FE2AFF16FE2B" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Gymnothorax isingteena</emphasis>
(Richardson)
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and
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF9B693DFE6BFE4EFD9FFE2B" box="[422,605,477,503]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">G. melanospilus</emphasis>
(Bleeker)
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. The species was not collected during the present study, and no tissue samples or COI sequence data for
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF9B693DFDA7FD92FCC4FDC7" box="[618,774,513,539]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">G. favagineus</emphasis>
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specimens from the Red Sea are available at present. The one sequence of
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF9B693DFE9BFDB6FDB3FDE3" box="[342,625,549,575]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Gymnothorax favagineus</emphasis>
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included in the phylogenetic analysis (
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) and other near identical sequences from the southwestern Indian Ocean that are deposited in BOLD (not included in the present analysis) do not differ markedly from sequences from specimens collected in distant parts of the distribution area of the species (e.g.
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,
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and Western Australia) indicating low levels of intra-specific genetic differentiation (not shown in the present phylogeny,
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). The closest phylogenetic relationship, although only weakly supported by bootstrapped analyses, is with
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Bleeker
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(represented by a specimen from the Society Islands in the present analysis, see
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).
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