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Echidna nebulosa
Description
* Echidna nebulosa (Ahl, 1789).
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).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Echidna
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ahl
- Species
- nebulosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echidna nebulosa (Ahl, 1789) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- McCosker, J. E. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (2010) The fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago: an update. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 61, Supplement II, No. 11, 167 - 195.
- Koeda, K., Hibino, Y., Yoshida, T., Kimura, Y., Miki, R., Kunishima, T., Sasaki, D., Furukawa, T., Sakurai, M., Eguchi, K., Suzuki, H., Inaba, T., Uejo, T., Tanaka, S., Fujisawa, M., Wada, H. & Uchiyama, T. (2016) Annotated Checklist of Fishes of Yonaguni-jima Island, the Westernmost Island in Japan. Kagoshima University Museum, Korimoto, Kagoshima.
- Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Giraldo, A. & Zapata, F. A. (2014) Tidepool fish assemblages of Gorgona Island, Colombian Pacific coast: a local and regional comparison). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 62 (Supplement 1), 373 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 62 i 0.16362
- Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.