Echidna (genus)
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Echidna
J. R. Forster, 1788
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Echidna is a genus of moray eels in the family Muraenidae.[1]
Species
In addition to the species listed below, the zebra moray (Gymnomuraena zebra) has sometimes been included in Echidna.
- Echidna amblyodon (Bleeker, 1856)
- Echidna catenata (Bloch, 1795) (chain moray)
- Echidna delicatula (Kaup, 1856) (mottled moray)
- Echidna leucotaenia L. P. Schultz, 1943 (whiteface moray)
- Echidna nebulosa (J. N. Ahl, 1789) (snowflake moray)
- Echidna nocturna (Cope, 1872) (freckled moray)
- Echidna peli (Kaup, 1856) (pebbletooth moray)
- Echidna polyzona (J. Richardson, 1845) (barred moray)
- Echidna rhodochilus Bleeker, 1863 (pink-lipped moray eel)
- Echidna unicolor L. P. Schultz, 1953 (unicolor moray)
- Echidna xanthospilos (Bleeker, 1859) (New Guinea moray)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Echidna in FishBase. June 2011 version.
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