Myrichthys colubrinus (Boddaert 1781)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10446901

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-8030-FF93-EDFC-CB661861083C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Myrichthys colubrinus (Boddaert 1781)
status

 

Myrichthys colubrinus (Boddaert 1781) View in CoL — Ringed snake eel, banded snake eel

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from St. Mathias as Ophichthys colubrinus and O. c. var. fasciata by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 81), based on ZMH 12015 and ZMH 12019.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 4.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa (south to Delagoa Bay, Mozambique) east to Johnston and Tuamotu (but not Hawaiian) islands, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. On sand patches of lagoon and seaward reefs, 0–30 m depth. Marine.

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF