''Moringua'' is a
genus
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of
eels
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of
marine ray-finned fishes
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belonging to the
family
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Moringuidae
The Moringuidae are a small family of eel
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the e ...
, the spaghetti eels. These eels occur in shallow tropical and subtropical waters.
Species
''Moringua'' contains these described species:
* ''
Moringua abbreviata''
( Bleeker, 1863)
* ''
Moringua bicolor''
Kaup, 1856
* ''
Moringua edwardsi''
( D. S. Jordan & Bollman, 1889) (spaghetti eel)
* ''
Moringua ferruginea''
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, 1883 (rusty spaghetti eel)
* ''
Moringua guthriana''
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, 1844) (Bengal spaghetti eel)
* ''
Moringua hawaiiensis''
Snyder, 1904
* ''
Moringua javanica
The Java spaghetti eel, also known as the Java thrush-eel, Java worm eel, and the black-tailed thrush eel ''
(Kaup, 1856) (Java spaghetti eel)
* ''
Moringua macrocephalus''
(Bleeker, 1863)
* ''
Moringua macrochir''
Bleeker, 1855
* ''
Moringua microchir''
Bleeker, 1853 (lesser thrush eel)
* ''
Moringua penni''
L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Penn's thrush eel)
* ''
Moringua raitaborua''
( F. Hamilton, 1822) (purple spaghetti eel)
References
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Moringuidae
Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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