Biology:Echidna (genus)

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Echidna
Snowflake moray in kona close up.jpg
Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Subfamily: Muraeninae
Genus: Echidna
J. R. Forster, 1788[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[2]
  • Kaup, 1856 Rafinesque, 1815
  • Jordan, 1925 Molarii
  • Megaderus Richardson, 1848
  • Poecilophis Leihala

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), FishBase and WoRMS recognize the following eleven species in Echnidna:[3][6]

In addition to the species listed above, the zebra moray (Gymnomuraena zebra) has sometimes been included in Echidna.

References

  1. Forster, Io. Reinholdo (1788). Enchiridion historiae naturali inserviens. Halae: Hemmerde etSchwetschke. p. 81. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25760824. 
  2. 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. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Echidna in FishBase. September 2017 version.
  4. Smith, Margaret M.; Heemstra, Philip C. (1986), "Class Osteichthyes", in Smith, Margaret M.; Heemstra, Phillip C., 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, https://books.google.com/books?id=FnTpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 
  5. 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. 
  6. Bailly, N. (2014). "Echidna Forster, 1788.". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206151. 

Wikidata ☰ Q913206 entry