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Echidna (genus)
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Echidna is a genus of moray eel
s in the family Muraenidae.
(Gymnomuraena zebra) has sometimes been included in Echidna.
Moray eel
Moray eels are cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. The approximately 200 species in 15 genera are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water and a few, for example the freshwater moray can sometimes be found in freshwater...
s in the family Muraenidae.
Species
In addition to the species listed below, the zebra morayZebra moray
The zebra moray, Gymnomuraena zebra, is a species of moray eel, the only member of the genus Gymnomuraena. It is found at reefs in the Indo-Pacific, and in the east Pacific from southern Baja California, Mexico to northern Colombia, including the Galapagos Islands.Its length is up to , though most...
(Gymnomuraena zebra) has sometimes been included in Echidna.
- Echidna amblyodonEchidna amblyodonEchidna amblyodon is a moray eel found in the western Central Pacific ocean. It was first named by Bleeker in 1856....
(BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1856) - Echidna catenataEchidna catenataEchidna 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 165 cm in length....
(BlochMarcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
, 1795) (Chain moray) - Echidna delicatulaEchidna delicatulaEchidna delicatula is a moray eel found in coral reefs around Sri Lanka, Samoa, and Japan. It was first named by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856, and is commonly known as the Fine-speckled moray or the Mottled moray....
(KaupJohann Jakob KaupJohann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
, 1856) (Mottled moray) - Echidna leucotaeniaEchidna leucotaeniaEchidna leucotaenia is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Schultz in 1943, and is commonly known as the Whiteface moray or the White-banded moray eel....
L. P. Schultz, 1943 (Whiteface moray) - Echidna nebulosa (J. N. Ahl, 1789) (Snowflake moray)
- Echidna nocturnaEchidna nocturnaEchidna nocturna is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific ocean, in the Gulf of California and around Peru and the Galapagos Islands. It was first named by Cope in 1872, and is commonly known as the Freckled moray or the Palenose moray....
(CopeEdward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen...
, 1872) (Freckled moray) - Echidna peliEchidna peliEchidna peli is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic ocean. It was first named by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856, and is commonly known as the Pebbletooth moray....
(KaupJohann Jakob KaupJohann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
, 1856) (Pebbletooth moray) - Echidna polyzona (J. RichardsonJohn Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
, 1845) (Barred moray) - Echidna rhodochilusEchidna rhodochilusEchidna rhodochilus is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian oceans, around India and the Philippines. It was first named by Bleeker in 1863, and is commonly known as the pink-lipped moray eel....
BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1863 (Pink-lipped moray eel) - Echidna unicolorEchidna unicolorEchidna unicolor is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It was first named by Schultz in 1953, and is commonly known as the Unicolor moray or the Pale moray. It is usually completely tan or light brown in color, aside from a dark ring around each eye....
L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Unicolor moray) - Echidna xanthospilosEchidna xanthospilosEchidna xanthospilos is a moray eel found in the western central Pacific Ocean, around Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker in 1859....
(BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1859)