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Echidna (fish)
''Echidna'' is a genus of moray eels in the family Muraenidae. Description ''Echidna'' species lack canine teeth. Diet They generally eat crustaceans. Species , FishBase and WoRMS recognize the following eleven species in ''Echidna'': * '' Echidna amblyodon'' ( Bleeker, 1856) (Sulawesi moray) * '' Echidna catenata'' ( Bloch, 1795) (chain moray) * '' Echidna delicatula'' ( Kaup, 1856) (mottled moray) * '' Echidna leucotaenia'' L. P. Schultz, 1943 (whiteface moray) * '' Echidna nebulosa'' ( J. N. Ahl, 1789) (snowflake moray) * '' Echidna nocturna'' (Cope, 1872) (freckled moray) * '' Echidna peli'' ( Kaup, 1856) (pebbletooth moray) * '' Echidna polyzona'' ( J. Richardson, 1845) (barred moray) * '' Echidna rhodochilus'' Bleeker, 1863 (pink-lipped moray eel) * '' Echidna unicolor'' L. P. Schultz, 1953 (unicolor moray) * '' Echidna xanthospilos'' ( Bleeker, 1859) (New Guinea moray) In addition to the species listed above, the zebra moray The zebra moray (''Gymnomuraena zebr ... [...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''. It is covered in fur and spines and has a distinctive snout and a specialized 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 repels predators by curling into a ball and deterring them with its spines. It lacks the ability to sweat and cannot deal with heat well, so it tends to avoid daytime activity in hot weather. It can swim if needed. The snout has me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echidna Leucotaenia
''Echidna leucotaenia'', the whiteface moray, also known as the white-banded moray eel, is a moray eel (family Muraenidae).''Echidna leucotaenia'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Schultz in 1943.Schultz, L. P., 1943 (20 Jan.) ef. 3957''Fishes of the Phoenix and Samoan Islands collected in 1939 during the expedition of the U. S. S. "Bushnell.".'' Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 180: i-x + 1-316, Pls. 1-9. It is a , and [...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, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia ... in 1859. Its common names include yellow-spotted moray''Echidna xanthospilos'' at www.fishbase.org. and skeletor moray. References Fish described in 1859[...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 ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...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 (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ....''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] |
John Richardson (naturalist)
Sir John Richardson Royal Society of London, FRS FRSE (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scotland, Scottish naval surgeon, natural history, naturalist and Arctic explorer. Life Richardson was born at Nith Place in Dumfries the son of Gabriel Richardson, Provost of Dumfries, and his wife, Anne Mundell. He was educated at Dumfries Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to his maternal uncle, Dr James Mundell, a surgeon in Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and ichthyology for the official account of the expedition. Franklin and Richardson returned to Canada in 1825 and went overland by fur trade routes to the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Franklin was to go as far west as possible and Richardson was to go east to the mouth of the Coppermine River. These ... [...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 . 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 fisheries and the aquarium An aquarium (plural: ''aquariums'' or ... [...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 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published 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 married his cousin and had one child; the family moved from Philadelphia to Haddonfield, New Jersey, although Cope would maintain a residence and museum in Philadelphia in his later years. Cope had little formal scientific training, and he eschewed a teaching position for field work. He made regular trips to the American West, prospecting in the 1870s and 1880s, often as a member of United States Geological Survey teams. A personal feud between Cope and paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh led to a period of intense fossil-finding competition ... [...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 ''nebulosus'' 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 FA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
