Moringua
Appearance
Moringua | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Moringuidae |
Genus: | Moringua Gray, 1831 |
Type species | |
Moringua linearis Gray, 1831[1]
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Moringua is a genus of eels of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Moringuidae, the spaghetti eels. These eels occur in shallow tropical and subtropical waters.
Species
[edit]Moringua contains these described species:[2]
- Moringua abbreviata (Bleeker, 1863)
- Moringua bicolor Kaup, 1856
- Moringua edwardsi (D. S. Jordan & Bollman, 1889) (spaghetti eel)
- Moringua ferruginea Bliss, 1883 (rusty spaghetti eel)
- Moringua guthriana (McClelland, 1844) (Bengal spaghetti eel)
- Moringua hawaiiensis Snyder, 1904
- 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
[edit]- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Moringuidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Moringua". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Moringua". FishBase. June 2011 version.