''Echidna peli'' is a

moray eel Moray eels, or Muraenidae (), are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera which are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, and a few are f ...

found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.''Echidna peli''
at www.fishbase.org. It was first named by

Johann Jakob Kaup Johann Jakob von Kaup (10 April 1803 – 4 July 1873) was a German naturalist. A proponent of natural philosophy, he believed in an innate mathematical order in nature and he attempted biological classifications based on the Quinarian system. Kaup ...

in 1856, and is commonly known as the pebbletooth moray.Common names for ''Echidna peli''
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 Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

, who sent the type specimen to the

Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum of Natural History) was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1820 by Royal Decree from a merger of several existing collections. This happened on the initi ...

in Leiden, Netherlands.

References

peli People Peli is an Italian and Hebrew surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Peli (1915–2007), Ukrainian-Jewish encyclopedist * Bracha Peli (1892–1986), Israeli publisher * Giora Peli (1936–2020), Isra ...

Taxa named by Johann Jakob Kaup Fish described in 1856 {{muraenidae-stub