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Muraena kauila = leopard moray eel (Enchelycore pardalis)
| Subject: | Muraena kauila = leopard moray eel (Enchelycore pardalis)
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Muraena kauila Jenkins, new species. Type
Subject: Morays, Muraena
Tag: Fish
Date 1904
Author Oliver Peebles Jenkins (1850–1935)
Source/Photographer Jenkins, Oliver P. (1904) Report on Collections of Fishes Made in the Hawaiian Islands, with Descriptions of New Species, Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, vol.22, 1902, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFMIB_41019_Muraena_kauilla_Jenkins%2C_new_species_Type.jpeg
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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