Uropterygius xanthopterus Bleeker, 1859
| Fishes of the Phoenix and Samoan Islands collected in 1939 during the expedition of the U.S.S. Bushnell L P Schultz (1943) Bulletin of the United States National Museum 180: 1-316 | |
| Three new species of Indo-Pacific moray eels (Pisces: Muraenidae) J E Mccosker and J E Randall (1977) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 41: 161-168 | |
| Synonymies of Indian Ocean eels, with the description of Gymnothorax enigmaticus, a moray previously known as G. ruppeli John E Mccosker and John E Randall (1982) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 43(2): 17-24 |