Echidna (genus)
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For other senses of this word, see Echidna (disambiguation).
| Echidna | |
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| Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Muraenidae |
| Genus: | Echidna J. R. Forster, 1788 |
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Echidna is a genus of moray eels in the family Muraenidae.
[edit] 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)
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Echidna in FishBase. June 2011 version.
