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Red Sea material.
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: HUJ 5239 (1, 547), Eilat; HUJ 5241 (1, 536), Eilat; HUJ 15020 (2, 410476),
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:
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(2, 408518),
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(Hurghada)
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(1, 601), channel at
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Comparative material.
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342096 (1, 352);
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345794 (1, 220).
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<collectingCountry id="58F1763AFF88692EFB43FE96FB21FEC3" box="[1166,1251,261,287]" name="Taiwan" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Taiwan</collectingCountry>
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312122 (1, 156).
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126552 (3, 91360).
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312135 (1, 267).
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In TL: preanal length 1.92.1, predorsal length 8.912, head length 8.111, body depth at anus 1826. In head length: snout length 5.67.0, eye diameter 9.313, upper-jaw length 2.63.7. Pores: LL 2, SO 3, IO 4, POM 6. Vertebrae: predorsal 46, preanal 5458, total 119125.
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: light gray, white or pale brown (darker with growth), finely flecked with black, with two longitudinal rows of large, complex snowflake-like black blotches (those of ventral row are vertically elongate), containing one or more yellow spots and irregular dark edges; anterior tip of snout and lower jaw varying from white to gray; iris and anterior nostrils yellow.
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Widely distributed across the entire Indo-Pacific, from the east coast of Africa and the
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to Central America. Common inhabitant of coral reefs, typically found on reef flats, sometimes in seagrass areas, usually from depth less than
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; feeding largely on crustaceans, usually crabs.
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFF0AFBD2FEF9FB87" bold="true" box="[199,315,1089,1115]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Remarks.</emphasis>
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designated the specimen in the original illustration reproduced in
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and noted that Ahl published his dissertation of
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1801.
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dated the original description of
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to 1801, but that is apparently incorrect as there is a 1789 publication that differs from the 1801 reference.
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gave the type locality as East Indies and mentioned Frickes designation of the
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as the illustrated specimen, which no longer exists.
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was published in the synonymy of
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFE96FB65FE22FAD3" box="[347,480,1269,1295]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">E. nebulosa</emphasis>
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, but without any comment or description; it is a
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, hence an unavailable name.
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This species shows little morphological variation over its vast range. The three specimens from the
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have slightly fewer vertebrae (119122, N = 5) than those from elsewhere (122125, N = 7), but the sample size is too small to draw any firm conclusions.
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The three specimens from the Red Sea (
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), the Western Pacific (
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) and the South Pacific (Society Islands) formed one joint monophyletic lineage in the phylogenetic analysis without apparent genetic divergence of the Red Sea specimen from e.g. the specimen from the
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(TZAIC707-06, see
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). A study on the genetic differentiation within
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across the Indo-Pacific showed no marked intra-specific genetic variation in mitochondrial haplotypes (
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Reece
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. 2011
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). One COI sequence of a specimen that was originally identified as
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in
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Reece
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. (2010)
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(
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HQ
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) was part of a clade composed of specimens of
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFACFF9CEFF18F947" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Gymnothorax pictus</emphasis>
(Ahl)
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. The reason remains unclear, and examination of the voucher specimen and/or re-sequencing of the COI gene would be required to solve the issue; however, we preliminarily re-assigned the sequence/specimen to
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFA4CF936FF18F93F" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">G. pictus</emphasis>
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and suggest either a sequence mix-up or a misidentification as the cause for the unexpected placement of the sequence.
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formed a well-supported clade with three other species, i.e.
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFB4DF97EFB24F8DB" box="[1152,1254,1773,1799]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">G. pictus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFB39F97EFF29F8F7" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">G. pseudothyrsoideus</emphasis>
(Bleeker)
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and
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFE5DF882FD43F8F7" box="[400,641,1809,1835]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Echidna xanthospilos</emphasis>
(Bleeker)
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. Other species of
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFC75F882FBD7F8F7" box="[952,1045,1809,1835]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Echidna</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also formed part of well-supported clades in other parts of the phylogeny leading to a polyphyletic genus
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FF88692EFC64F8A6FBC4F893" box="[937,1030,1845,1871]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Echidna</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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