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Muraenidae (Moray eels) > Muraeninae
Etymology: Gymnothorax: Greek, gymnos = naked + Greek, thorax, -akos = breast (Ref. 45335); pseudotile: Named for its close similarity in external morphology with Gymnothorax tile (Hamilton 1822).
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin récifal. Tropical
Eastern Indian Ocean: India, West Bengal.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 47.0 cm TL (female)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Vertèbres: 126 - 129. This species is distinguished by the following characters: robust body; anus at about mid-body; long head; blunt snout with large eye located slightly closer to rictus than to tip of snout; lower jaw is slightly shorter than upper jaw; gill opening broadly rounded, positioned below lateral midline; dorsal-fin origin is above posterior half of gill opening; both dorsal and anal fin are low, with pale margin; intermaxillary teeth in 3 longitudinal rows, with median row of 3 depressible fang like teeth and a single row of 6 teeth on each side; colour dark brown dorsally with small white dots scattered all over and ventral part pale whitish with small brown spots without reticulations; infraorbital pores 3; predorsal vertebrae 12-13, preanal vertebrae 56-59, total vertebrae 126-129 (Ref. 115849).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated; Cross section: oval.
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Mohapatra, A., D.G. Smith, D. Ray, S.S. Mishra and S.R. Mohanty, 2017. Gymnothorax pseudotile sp. nov. (Muraenidae: Muraeninae) from Bay of Bengal India. Zootaxa 4286(4). (Ref. 115849)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
Pêcheries: intérêt commercial mineur
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.9 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Milieu, temps minimum de doublement de population : 1,4 à 4,4 années (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100). 🛈 |