''Scuticaria okinawae'' is a

moray eel Moray eels, or Muraenidae (), are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera which are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, and a few are f ...

found in the

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and

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s.''Scuticaria okinawae''
at www.fishbase.org. It is commonly known as the shorttailed snake moray, shorttail moray, Seale's moray eel, or the Bennett's moray.

Description

The shorttail moray is uniform gray or brown in color, and attains a length of up to SL.

Taxonomy

''Scutaria okinawae'' was previously referred to as ''Gymnomuraena bennetti'', ''Scuticaria bennetti'', or ''Uropterygius bennetti'' in a number of publications (Smith 1962; McCosker et al. 1984; Randall 1996). However, Böhlke and McCosker (1997) demonstrated that ''Gymnomuraena bennetti'' is a junior synonym of '' Channomuraena vittata'', so they resurrected ''okinawae'' for the eel previously misidentified as ''bennetti''. ''Uropterygius unicolor'' Seale, 1917 (given the unnecessary replacement name ''U. sealei'' Whitley, 1932) and ''Gymnomuraena brevicauda'' Regan, 1903 are synonyms.Böhlke, E.B. and J.E. McCosker, 1997. Review of the moray eel genus Scuticaria and included species (Pisces: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae: Uropterygiinae). Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 148:171-176.

References

External links

* Muraenidae Fish described in 1901 Taxa named by David Starr Jordan {{muraenidae-stub