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Genus of fishes
This article is about the moray eel genus
Echidna Forster, 1788 . It is not to be confused with the monotreme genus
Echidna Cuvier, 1797 , now known as
Tachyglossus Illiger, 1811 or the viper genus
Echidna Merrem, 1820 , now known as
Bitis Gray, 1842 .
Echidna is a genus of
moray eels in the family
Muraenidae .
[3]
Description
Echidna species lack canine teeth.
[4]
Diet
They generally eat crustaceans.
[5]
Species
As of 2017
[update] ,
FishBase and
WoRMS recognize the following eleven species in Echidna :
[3]
[6]
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 .
^
a
b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017).
Species of Echidna in
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 .