Peer-reviewed
Additions to the New Zealand marine eel fauna with the description of a new moray, Anarchias supremus (Teleostei: Muraenidae), and comments on the identity of Gymnothorax griffini Whitley & Phillips
Anarchias supremus new species is described on the basis of a specimen dredged at 154 m off Macauley Island, Kermadec Ridge, and differs from its congeners in its coloration, dentition, and high vertebral number. Four other eels are added to the New Zealand ichthyofauna comprising, at the Kermadecs, the morays Anarchias cf. seychellensis, Gymnothorax berndti, and Gymnothorax ypsilon, and from Northland, the snake eel Apterichtus flavicaudus. Data are provided for the moray Gymnothorax eurostus and the snake eelMyrichthys maculosus, listed by Francis (1993) as new records from the Kermadecs, but lacking data. Gymnothorax griffini Whitley & Phillips 1939 is placed in the synonymy of Gymnothoraxporphyreus (Guichenot, 1848)
Article, 2006