Genus of fishes
This article is about the moray eel genus
Echidna Forster, 1788 . 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 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 , 1943Echidna 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 ^ 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 ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Echidna " . FishBase ^ 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 .
