Echidna peli
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Muraenidae |
| Genus: | Echidna |
| Species: | E. peli
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| Binomial name | |
| Echidna peli (Kaup, 1856)
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Echidna peli is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.[2] It was first named by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856,[2] and is commonly known as the pebbletooth moray.[3]
The fish is named in honor of Hendrik Severinus Pel (1818-1876) the Dutch Governor of the Gold Coast which is now Ghana, who sent the type specimen to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, Netherlands.[4]
References[]
- ^ Smith, D.G. (2015). "Echidna peli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T195684A2402261. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T195684A2402261.en.
- ^ a b Echidna peli at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Common names for Echidna peli at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order ANGUILLIFORMES: Families PROTANGUILLIDAE, SYNAPHOBRANCHIDAE, HETERENCHELYIDAE, MYROCONGRIDAE, MURAENIDAE, CHLOPSIDAE and DERICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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