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Echidna (fish)
''Echidna'' is a genus of moray eels in the family Muraenidae. Species in this genus currently do not form a Monophyly, monophyletic group. Description ''Echidna'' species lack canine teeth. Diet They generally eat crustaceans. Species , FishBase and WoRMS recognize the following eleven species in ''Echidna'': * ''Echidna amblyodon'' (Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker, 1856) (Sulawesi moray) * ''Echidna catenata'' (Marcus Elieser Bloch, Bloch, 1795) (chain moray) * ''Echidna delicatula'' (Johann Jakob Kaup, Kaup, 1856) (mottled moray) * ''Echidna leucotaenia'' Leonard Peter Schultz, L. P. Schultz, 1943 (whiteface moray) * ''Echidna nebulosa'' (Jonas Niclas Ahl, J. N. Ahl, 1789) (snowflake moray) * ''Echidna nocturna'' (Edward Drinker Cope, Cope, 1872) (freckled moray) * ''Echidna peli'' (Kaup, 1856) (pebbletooth moray) * ''Echidna polyzona'' (John Richardson (naturalist), J. Richardson, 1845) (barred moray) * ''Echidna rhodochilus'' Bleeker, 1863 (pink-lipped moray eel) * ''Echidna unic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tachyglossus
The short-beaked echidna (''Tachyglossus aculeatus''), also called the short-nosed echidna, is one of four living species of echidna, and the only member of the genus ''Tachyglossus'', from Ancient Greek (), meaning "fast", and (), meaning "tongue". It is covered in fur and spines and has a distinctive snout and a specialised tongue, which it uses to catch its insect prey at a great speed. Like the other extant monotremes, the short-beaked echidna lays eggs; the monotremes are the only living group of mammals to do so. The short-beaked echidna has extremely strong front limbs and claws, which allow it to burrow quickly with great power. As it needs to be able to survive underground, it has a significant tolerance to high levels of carbon dioxide and low levels of oxygen. It has no weapons or fighting ability but deters predators by curling into a ball and protecting itself with its spines. It cannot sweat or deal well with heat, so it tends to avoid daytime activity in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Elieser Bloch
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multi-volume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world. Brought up in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish family, he learned German and Latin and studied anatomy before settling in Berlin as a physician. He amassed a large natural history collection, particularly of fish specimens. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century, and wrote many papers on natural history, comparative anatomy, and physiology. Life Bloch was born at Ansbach in 1723 where his father was a Torah writer and his mother owned a small shop. Educated at home in Hebrew literature he became a private tutor in Hamburg for a Jewish surgeon. Here he learned German, Latin and anatomy. He then studied medicine in Berlin and received a doctorate in 1762 from Frankfort on the Oder with a treatise on skin disorders. He then became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zebra Moray
The zebra moray (''Gymnomuraena zebra'') is a species of marine fish in the family Muraenidae. It is the only member of the genus ''Gymnomuraena'', though it sometimes has been included in ''Echidna'' instead. Description The zebra moray is considered as a medium-sized fish even if it can reach a maximum length of 150 cm. However, the average size commonly observed is more of the order of 50 cm. It is densely banded dark and whitish, giving rise to its common name. Its snout is round and short. Distribution and habitat The zebra moray is widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific area from eastern coast of Africa until western coast of the Americas, including the Red Sea, Hawaii and Galápagos. The zebra moray is a benthic fish, its favorite habitat corresponds to the rocky or coral reef on coastal shallow water up to 40 meters deep. Biology ''Gymnomuraena zebra'' has a nocturnal activity and actively hunt its prey. Unlike most other moray eels, it feeds exclusively on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echidna Xanthospilos
''Echidna xanthospilos'' is a moray eel found in the western central Pacific Ocean, around Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It was first named by Pieter Bleeker Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, Ichthyology, ichthyologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on ... in 1859. Its common names include yellow-spotted moray''Echidna xanthospilos'' at www.fishbase.org. and skeletor moray. References Fish described in 1859 Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echidna Unicolor
''Echidna unicolor'' is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), ...s.''Echidna unicolor'' at www.fishbase.org. It was first named by Schultz in 1953, and is commonly known as the unicolor moray or the pale moray. at www.fishbase.org. It is usually completely tan or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echidna Rhodochilus
''Echidna rhodochilus'' is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian oceans, around India and the Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ....''Echidna rhodochilus'' at www.fishbase.org. It was first named by Bleeker in 1863, and is commonly known as the pink-lipped moray eel. at www.fishbase.org. < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echidna Polyzona
The barred moray (''Echidna polyzona''), also known as the banded moray, the dark-banded eel, the girdled moray, the girdled reef eel, the many banded moray eel, the ringed moray, the ringed reef moray, the striped moray and the zebra eel,) is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae. It was described by John Richardson in 1845, originally under the genus ''Muraena''. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific, including the Red Sea, East Africa, the Hawaiian Islands, the Marquesan Islands, the Tuamotus Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Great Barrier Reef. It dwells at a depth range of , and leads a benthic lifestyle in reefs and shallow lagoons. Males can reach a maximum total length of . It is sometimes confused with the Zebra moray (Gymnomuraena). The barred moray's diet consists of shrimp such as '' Saron marmoratus'', crabs, isopods, and polychaetes, which it feeds on during both day and night. It is of commercial interest to both subsistence fisherie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echidna Peli
''Echidna peli'' is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.''Echidna peli'' at www.fishbase.org. It was first named by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856, and is commonly known as the pebbletooth moray. at www.fishbase.org. The fish is named in honor of Hendrik Severinus Pel (1818-1876) the Dutch Governor of the Gold Coast which is now Ghana, who sent the type specimen to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, Netherlands. References Echidna (fish), peli Taxa named by Johann Jakob Kaup ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontology, paleontologist, comparative anatomy, comparative anatomist, herpetology, herpetologist, and ichthyology, ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, he distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science, publishing his first scientific paper at the age of 19. Though his father tried to raise Cope as a gentleman farmer, he eventually acquiesced to his son's scientific aspirations. Cope had little formal scientific training, and he eschewed a teaching position for field work. He made regular trips to the Western United States, American West, prospecting in the 1870s and 1880s, often as a member of United States Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey teams. A personal feud between Cope and paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh led to a period of intense fossil-finding competition now known as the Bone Wars. Cope's financial fortunes soured after failed mining ventures i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echidna Nocturna
''Echidna nocturna'' is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, in the Gulf of California and around Peru and the Galapagos Islands.''Echidna nocturna'' at www.fishbase.org. It was first named by Cope in 1872, and is commonly known as the freckled moray or the palenose moray. It was discovered that ''Echidna nocturna'' and ''Muraena acutis'' are the same species. Description ''Echidna nocturna'' has a long snake-like body with an average vertebral count of 120.4 vertebrae. The average length of an adult eel is 48.26 cm. Juveniles range in size from 8.52 cm to 35.48 cm with the average length being 22 cm. They weigh between 1.12g and 296.1 g with the average weight being 49.62 grams.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Niclas Ahl
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Echidna Nebulosa
The snowflake moray (''Echidna nebulosa''), also known as the clouded moray among many vernacular names, is a species of marine eel of the family Muraenidae. It has blunt teeth ideal for its diet of crustaceans, a trait it shares with the zebra moray (''Gymnomuraena zebra''). Its Hawaiian name is puhi-kapa, which originates from King Kamehameha I’s nickname. The genus name is derived from the Greek word ''echidna'' meaning "viper", and the species name, ''nebulosa,'' originates from the Latin word meaning "misty" or "cloudy". It is widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa throughout Micronesia including the Red Sea and to Hawaii. The species is also found in the eastern Central Pacific from southern Baja California, Mexico, and from Costa Rica to northern Colombia.McCosker, J.E. and R.H. Rosenblatt, 1995. Muraenidae. Morenas. p. 1303–1315. In Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter and V. Niem (eds.) Guia FAO para Ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
