Echidna (fish)

This article is about the moray eel genus Echidna Forster, 1788. Not to be confused with the monotreme genus Echidna Cuvier, 1797, now known as Tachyglossus Illiger, 1811 or the viper genus Echidna Merrem, 1820, now known as Bitis Gray, 1842.

Echidna
Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Subfamily: Muraeninae
Genus: Echidna
J. R. Forster, 1788[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[2]

Echidna is a genus of moray eels in the family Muraenidae.[3]

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