A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Muraenidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Gymnothorax pharaonis Smith, Bogorodsky, Mal & Alpermann, 2019 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ghost morayGymnothorax phasmatodes (Smith, 1962) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax philippinus Jordan & Seale, 1907 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax pictus (Ahl, 1789) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax pikei Bliss, 1883 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| pinda morayGymnothorax pindae Smith, 1962 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| polygon morayGymnothorax polygonius Poey, 1875 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax polyspondylus Böhlke & Randall, 2000 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax polyuranodon (Bleeker, 1854) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax prasinus (Richardson, 1848) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax prionodon Ogilby, 1895 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax prismodon Böhlke & Randall, 2000 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax prolatus Sasaki & Amaoka, 1991 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax pseudoherrei Böhlke, 2000 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax pseudoprolatus Smith, Hibino & Ho, 2018 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax pseudothyrsoideus (Bleeker, 1853) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax pseudotile Mohapatra, Smith, Ray, Mishra & Mohanty, 2017 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax punctatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax randalli Smith & Böhlke, 1997 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax reevesii (Richardson, 1845) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax reticularis Bloch, 1795 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax richardsonii (Bleeker, 1852) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax robinsi Böhlke, 1997 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax ryukyuensis Hatooka, 2003 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax sagenodeta (Richardson, 1848) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax sagmacephalus Böhlke, 1997 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| honeycomb morayGymnothorax saxicola Jordan & Davis, 1891 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax serratidens (Hildebrand & Barton, 1949) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax shaoi Chen & Loh, 2007 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax sokotrensis Kotthaus, 1968 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax taiwanensis Chen, Loh & Shao, 2008 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax tamilnaduensis Kodeeswaran, Kantharajan, Mohapatra, Kumar & Sarkar, 2023 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax thyrsoideus (Richardson, 1845) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax tile (Hamilton, 1822) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| undulated morayGymnothorax undulatus (Lacepède, 1803) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax unicolor (Delaroche, 1809) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax vagrans (Seale, 1917) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| white-edged morayGymnothorax verrilli (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| purplemouth morayGymnothorax vicinus (Castelnau, 1855) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax visakhaensis Mohapatra, Smith, Mohanty, Mishra & Tudu, 2017 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax walvisensis Prokofiev, 2009 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax woodwardi McCulloch, 1912 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax ypsilon Hatooka & Randall, 1992 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gymnothorax zonipectis Seale, 1906 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| redface morayMonopenchelys acuta (Parr, 1930) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muraena appendiculata (Guichenot, 1848) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Argus morayMuraena argus (Steindachner, 1870) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muraena augusti (Kaup, 1856) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| hourglass morayMuraena clepsydra Gilbert, 1898 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mediterranean morayMuraena helena Linnaeus, 1758 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.