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Muraena pardalis = leopard moray eel (Enchelycore pardalis)
| Subject: | Muraena pardalis = leopard moray eel (Enchelycore pardalis)
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Muraena pardalis
Date 1864
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néerlandaises, IV, Murènes tab. CLXX
Old Latin name Muraena pardalis
New Latin name Enchelycore pardalis
Common name Nederlands: Murene
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muraena_pardalis_-_1864_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ15300013.tif
The leopard moray eel, tiger moray eel or dragon moray (Enchelycore pardalis), is a species of marine fish in the family Muraenidae. The leopard moray eel is widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific oceans from Réunion to the Hawaiian, Line and Society Islands, north to southern Japan, southern Korea, and south to New Caledonia. This eel is characterized by its narrow, curved jaws, vivid red stripes on the head, and elongated tubular nostrils.
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Enchelycore
Species: Enchelycore pardalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) |
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