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 Echidna:[3][6]
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Echidna amblyodon (Bleeker, 1856) (Sulawesi moray)
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Echidna catenata (Bloch, 1795) (chain moray)
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Echidna delicatula (Kaup, 1856) (mottled moray)
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Echidna leucotaenia L. P. Schultz, 1943 (whiteface moray)
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Echidna nebulosa (J. N. Ahl, 1789) (snowflake moray)
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Echidna nocturna (Cope, 1872) (freckled moray)
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Echidna peli (Kaup, 1856) (pebbletooth moray)
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Echidna polyzona (J. Richardson, 1845) (barred moray)
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Echidna rhodochilus Bleeker, 1863 (pink-lipped moray eel)
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Echidna unicolor L. P. Schultz, 1953 (unicolor moray)
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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
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^ Forster, Io. Reinholdo (1788). Enchiridion historiae naturali inserviens. Halae: Hemmerde etSchwetschke. p. 81.
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^ 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.
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^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Echidna in FishBase. September 2017 version.
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^ 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
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^ 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.
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^ Bailly, N. (2014). Bailly N (ed.). "Echidna Forster, 1788". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
