Gymnothorax zonipectis Seale, 1906

Rajan, P. T., Bharucha, Johann, Bineesh, K. K. & Mishra, S. S., 2018, Gymnothorax zonipectis Seale, 1906 (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) - an addition to the Eel Fauna of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (3), pp. 287-292 : 288

Barredtail Moray Gymnothorax zonipectis Seale at Neil Island.

Muraenid species reported from Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Blyth (1846) has pioneered the study of fishes from Nicobar Islands with record of three moray eel, viz., Thaerodontis reticulata , Dalophis geometrica and Thaerodontis maculata , which are first ever report of any fish from these group of Islands. Day (1871) listed only 7 species of moray eels. Further, beginning with, many other workers contributed ( Day, 1878; Herre, 1940, Herre, 1941; Menon and Talwar, 1973; Talwar, 1990; Devi and Rao, 2003; Rajaram and Nedumaran, 2009; Allen & Erdmann, 2012) to record of ten more species, while recently Rajan et al., (2013) added Echidna rhodochilus to the list of muraenids from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The present record of Gymnothorax zonipectis forms the 21 st species from these Islands belonging to the family Muraenidae . An annotated list of muraenids so far reported from Andaman and Nicobar Islands is appended herewith.