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| Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Muraenidae |
| Subfamily: | Muraeninae |
| Genus: | Echidna J. R. Forster, 1788 |
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Echidna is a genus of moray eels in the family Muraenidae.
Description
Echidna species lack canine teeth.
Diet
They generally eat crustaceans.
Species
As of 2017, FishBase and WoRMS recognize the following eleven species in Echidna:
- Echidna amblyodon (Bleeker, 1856) (Sulawesi moray)
- 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)
In addition to the species listed above, the zebra moray (Gymnomuraena zebra) has sometimes been included in Echidna.
References
- Forster, Io. Reinholdo (1788). Enchiridion historiae naturali inserviens. Halae: Hemmerde etSchwetschke. p. 81.
- Böhlke, Eugenia B.; Randall, John E. (2000). "A Review of the Moray eels (Angulliformes: Muraenidae) of the Hawaiian Islands, with Descriptions of Two New Species". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 150: 216. JSTOR 4065071.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Echidna". FishBase. September 2017 version.
- Smith, Margaret M.; Heemstra, Philip C. (1986), "Class Osteichthyes", in Smith, Margaret M.; Heemstra, Phillip C. (eds.), Smiths Sea Fishes (6th ed.), Springer Science & Business Media, p. 166, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-82858-4_13, ISBN 978-3-642-82858-4
- Arun Kumar, M.; Venu, S.; Padmavati, G. (2016). "First Record of the Pink Lipped Moray Eel, Echidna rhodochilus (Bleeker 1863) (Family: Muraenidae), from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". International Journal of Oceanography. 2016: 1–4. doi:10.1155/2016/6098027.
- Bailly, N. (2014). Bailly N (ed.). "Echidna Forster, 1788". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
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