Enchelycore
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Enchelycore is a genus of moray eel
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. Enchelycore species are generally small to medium-sized eels, most ranging from 2 to 3 ft (61 to 91.4 cm) in length, with the largest being the Mosaic Moray (E. ramosa), which reaches a length of 6 feet (182.9 cm). Members of the genus feature distinctive, curved jaws that prevent them from fully closing their mouth and aids them in catching, and holding on to prey. Enchelycore species can also feature extremely bright colors (E. pardalis, E. anatina) and ornate markings (E. lichenosa
Enchelycore lichenosa
Enchelycore lichenosa is a moray eel found in coral reefs around Taiwan, southern Japan, and the Galapagos Islands. It was first named by Jordan and Snyder in 1901, and is commonly known as the Reticulate hookjaw moray. To respirate, the eel constantly opens and closes its mouth....

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Species

  • Enchelycore anatina (R. T. Lowe
    Richard Thomas Lowe
    Richard Thomas Lowe was a British botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge and in the same year took holy orders. He became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands in 1832, where he was a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the...

    , 1838)
    (Fangtooth moray)
  • Enchelycore bayeri (L. P. Schultz, 1953) (Bayer's moray)
  • Enchelycore bikiniensis
    Enchelycore bikiniensis
    Enchelycore bikiniensis§ is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific ocean. It was first named by Schultz in 1953, and is commonly known as the Bikini Atoll moray or the Bikini moray....

    (L. P. Schultz, 1953) (Bikini Atoll moray)
  • Enchelycore carychroa J. E. Böhlke & E. B. Böhlke, 1976 (Caribbean chestnut moray)
  • Enchelycore kamara
    Enchelycore kamara
    Enchelycore kamara is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the central Pacific ocean. It was first named by Böhlke and Böhlke in 1980, and is commonly known as the Dark-spotted moray....

    J. E. Böhlke & E. B. Böhlke, 1980 (Dark-spotted moray)
  • Enchelycore lichenosa
    Enchelycore lichenosa
    Enchelycore lichenosa is a moray eel found in coral reefs around Taiwan, southern Japan, and the Galapagos Islands. It was first named by Jordan and Snyder in 1901, and is commonly known as the Reticulate hookjaw moray. To respirate, the eel constantly opens and closes its mouth....

    (D. S. Jordan
    David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...

     & Snyder
    John Otterbein Snyder
    John Otterbein Snyder was an American zoologist.As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at Stanford University and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the USS Albatross...

    , 1901)
    (Reticulate hookjaw moray)
  • Enchelycore nigricans (Bonnaterre
    Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
    Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique...

    , 1788)
    (Mulatto Conger)
  • Enchelycore nycturanus
    Enchelycore nycturanus
    Enchelycore nycturanus is a moray eel found in the Aliwal Shoal off the coast of South Africa. It was first named by D.G. Smith in 2002....

    D. G. Smith, 2002
  • Enchelycore octaviana
    Enchelycore octaviana
    Enchelycore octaviana is a moray eel found in coral reefs from the Gulf of California to Peru. It was first named by Myers and Wade in 1941, and is commonly known as the Slenderjaw moray....

    (Myers
    George S. Myers
    Dr. George Sprague Myers spent most of his career at Stanford University, where he was one of the leading American ichthyologists of the twentieth century. He served as the editor of Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin as well as president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists...

     & Wade, 1941)
    (Slenderjaw moray)
  • Enchelycore pardalis (Temminck
    Coenraad Jacob Temminck
    Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...

     & Schlegel
    Hermann Schlegel
    Hermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...

    , 1846)
    (Leopard moray)
  • Enchelycore ramosa (Griffin, 1926) (Mosaic moray)
  • Enchelycore schismatorhynchus
    Enchelycore schismatorhynchus
    Enchelycore schismatorhynchus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Bleeker in 1853, and is commonly known as the White-margined moray, Brown moray eel, or the Funnel-nostril moray....

    (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter 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....

    , 1853)
    (White-margined moray)
  • Enchelycore tamarae
    Enchelycore tamarae
    Enchelycore tamarae is a moray eel found in coral reefs around India. It was first named by Prokofiev in 2005, and might feed on crustaceans....

    Prokofiev, 2005
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