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Echidna (genus)



 
 
Echidna is a genus of moray eel
Moray eel

Moray eels are large cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera. The typical length of a moray is 1.5 m , with the largest being the slender giant moray, Strophidon sathete, at up to 4 m ....
s in the family Muraenidae.








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Echidna is a genus of moray eel
Moray eel

Moray eels are large cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera. The typical length of a moray is 1.5 m , with the largest being the slender giant moray, Strophidon sathete, at up to 4 m ....
s in the family Muraenidae.

Species

  • Echidna amblyodon (Bleeker, 1856)
  • Chain moray, Echidna catenata
    Echidna catenata

    Echidna catenata, or the chain moray, is a moray eel from the Western Atlantic. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 165cm in length....
     (Bloch, 1795)
  • Fine-speckled moray, Echidna delicatula (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup

    Johann Jakob Kaup was a Germany naturalist.He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at G?ttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes....
    , 1856)
  • Whiteface moray, Echidna leucotaenia Schultz, 1943
  • Snowflake moray
    Snowflake moray

    The snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa, is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Society Islands, north to southern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, south to Lord Howe Island, and throughout Micronesia....
    , Echidna nebulosa (Ahl, 1789)
  • Freckled moray, Echidna nocturna (Cope, 1872)
  • Pebbletooth moray, Echidna peli (Kaup, 1856)
  • Barred moray
    Barred moray

    The barred moray, Echidna polyzona, is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands, Marquesas Islands, and Tuamotus islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef, at depths down to 10 m....
    , Echidna polyzona (Richardson, 1845)
  • Echidna rhodochilus Bleeker, 1863
  • Unicolor moray, Echidna unicolor Schultz, 1953
  • Echidna xanthospilos (Bleeker, 1859)