Moringua

Moringua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Moringuidae
Genus:	Moringua; J. E. Gray, 1831

Moringua is a genus of eels of the family Moringuidae that occur in shallow tropical and subtropical waters. It contains these described species:

Moringua abbreviata (Bleeker, 1863)
Moringua arundinacea (McClelland, 1844) (Bengal spaghetti eel)
Moringua bicolor Kaup, 1856
Moringua edwardsi (D. S. Jordan & Bollman, 1889) (spaghetti eel)
Moringua ferruginea , 1883 (rusty spaghetti eel)
Moringua javanica (Kaup, 1856) (Java spaghetti eel)
Moringua macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1863)
Moringua macrochir Bleeker, 1855
Moringua microchir Bleeker, 1853 (lesser thrush eel)
Moringua penni L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Penn's thrush eel)
Moringua raitaborua (F. Hamilton, 1822) (purple spaghetti eel)

References[]

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Moringua in FishBase. June 2011 version.

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