Echidna nebulosa (Ahl 1789)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Muraenidae
- genus
- Echidna
- species
- Echidna nebulosa
description
Snowflake Moray or Starry Moray. To 80 cm (31.5 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Kochi, Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002); Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) to Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2002), including lower Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (McCosker and Rosenblatt 2010). Marine and brackish waters (Koeda et al. 2016); benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 48 m (157 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Mundy 2005).
Name
- Homonyms
- Echidna nebulosa (Ahl 1789)