bicolor, Anguilla McClelland [J.] 1844:178, 202, 209, Pl. 6 (fig. 1) [Calcutta Journal of Natural History v. 5 (no. 18); ref. 2928] Sandoway, Malay coast, India. Syntypes: SMF 776 (1). •Valid as Anguilla bicolor McClelland 1844 -- (Ege 1939:151 [ref. 13172], Castle 1984:34 [ref. 6171], Castle 1986:160 [ref. 5644], Paxton et al. 1989:123 [ref. 12442], Allen 1991:39 [ref. 21090], Pethiyagoda 1991:44 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:75 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:7 [ref. 23448], Skelton 1993:106 [ref. 24071], Quéro & Saldanha 1995:63 [ref. 22017], Zhu 1995:18 [ref. 25213], Rainboth 1996:57 [ref. 22772], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780], Fricke 1999:37 [ref. 24106], Keith et al. 1999:74 [ref. 24548], Smith 1999:1634 [ref. 24661], Menon 1999:6 [ref. 24904], Allen et al. 2000:29 [ref. 27467], Hutchins 2001:16 [ref. 25847], Skelton 2001:106 [ref. 27406], Allen et al. 2002:61 [ref. 25930], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:49 [ref. 26359], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S94 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:610 [ref. 27495], Seegers et al. 2003:30 [ref. 28087], Morgan et al. 2004:150 [ref. 27718], Heemstra et al. 2004:3316 [ref. 27945] dated 1845, Watanabe et al. 2005:677 [ref. 39169] subspecies bicolor, Hoese & Gates 2006:236 [ref. 28997], Allen et al. 2008:34 [ref. 30265], Tan & Kottelat 2009:25 [ref. 30261], Fricke et al. 2009:13 [ref. 30213], Teng et al. 2009:817 [ref. 30569], Zhang et al. 2010:180 [ref. 31511], Morgan et al. 2011:10 [ref. 31262], Marshall 2011:59 [ref. 31755], Larson et al. 2013:24 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:37 [ref. 32989], Morgan et al. 2014:11 [ref. 36567], Zhang et al. 2016:46 [ref. 34477], Miesen et al. 2016:80 [ref. 34492], Pusey et al. 2017:16 [ref. 35250], Abdul Kadir et al. 2017:103 [ref. 35571], Fricke et al. 2018:30 [ref. 35805], Suresh et al. 2018:57 [ref. 36495], Arndt & Fricke 2019:10 [ref. 36883], Ng et al. 2019:518 [ref. 36606], Zajonz et al. 2019:61 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 5 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:287 [ref. 37272], Freyhof et al. 2020:113 [ref. 37658], Amick & Toko 2021:4 [ref. 38599], Fu et al. 2021:9567 [ref. 39347], Taki et al. 2021:46 [ref. 39830], Eudeline 2022:128 [ref. 39191] as bicolor bicolor, Jamaluddin et al. 2022:[5] [ref. 39245], Kuroki et al. 2022:176 [ref. 39912], Smith 2022:85 [ref. 39684], Zajonz et al. 2022:38 [ref. 40522], Esmaeili & Hamidan 2023:206 [ref. 40377], Jamandre 2023:159 [ref. 40455], Çiçek et al. 2024:34 [ref. 40789], Fricke et al. 2024:64 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Anguilla bicolor McClelland 1844. Anguillidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Mayotte (France), Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to China, Philippines and New Britain (Papua New Guinea), south to northern Western Australia. IUCN (2020): Near Threatened. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
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