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Echidna nocturna
Description
Echidna nocturna (Cope, 1872).
Freckled Moray or Palenose Moray. To 75 cm (29.5 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Bahía Santa Maria (24°47’N, 112°16’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) to Peru (Allen and Robertson 1994), including southern tip of Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 30 m (98 ft) (min.: Casellanos-Galindo et al. 2005; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995).
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 33, 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
- Cope
- Species
- nocturna
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echidna nocturna (Cope, 1872) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- 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.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.