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Taxon: Family Muraenidae Rafinesque, 1815 - moray eels (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (C.S. Rafinesque, 1815) C.L. Bonaparte, 1831
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 44 ("Ordine. I Murenidi."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 93 ("Murenidia"). [subfamily].
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.):  Bonaparte, C.L. 1831c. Giorn. Arcad. Sci. 52: 162; 184 ("Murenidae"). ("Famiglia"). ≡
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 31 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Muraeninae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815
Type: Muraena (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 144; 14 Apr 2025. [inferred]

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Heteromyridae (Family) Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 143.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: murenen Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: moray eels Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 143; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: morays Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2453.
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