Overview
Family : Moray eels ; Inhabits reef flats , clear shallow lagoons , and seaward reefs. Feeds mainly on small crustaceans during both day and night[1].
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Afrikaans:
Balk-bontpaling
Common Names in Creole, French:
Anguille raide raide
Common Names in Creoles and Pidgins, French:
Anguille raide raide
Common Names in Czech:
Mur, Muréna mnohopásá
Common Names in Danish:
Båndmuræne
Common Names in English:
Banded moray, Barred moray, Dark Tonguefish, Dark-banded eel, Girdled moray, Girdled Reef Eel, Many banded moray eel, Ringed moray, ringed reef moray, Striped moray, Zebra Eel
Common Names in Fijian:
Bonu
Common Names in Finnish:
Vy, Vyömureena
Common Names in French:
Congre noir
Common Names in Japanese:
Shima-arashi-utsubo
Common Names in Mahl:
Kadukkamalanhi, Mudiveng
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
多带蛇鳝(多带海鳝), 多帶蛇鱔(多帶海鱔), 多环蝮鯙, 多環蝮鯙, 節仔鰻, 节仔鳗, 薯鰻, 薯鳗, 虎鰻, 虎鳗, 錢鰻, 钱鳗
Common Names in Portuguese:
Moreia listrada
Common Names in Samoan:
Pusi
Common Names in Tagalog:
Indang, Ogdok, Payangitan
Common Names in Tahitian:
Puhi
Common Names in Vietnamese:
Cá Chình
Common Names in Visayan:
Indang, Ogdok
Description
Habitat
May be found at depths of 1 to 10 meters.
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,737 meters (0 to -22,103 feet).[2]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Elopomorpha
()
- Greenwood et al., 1966
- Order:
Anguilliformes
()
- Suborder:
Muraenoidei
()
- Family:
Muraenidae
()
- Subfamily:
Muraeninae
()
- Genus:
Echidna
()
- Forster, 1788
- Specific name:
polyzona
- Scientific name: - Echidna polyzona (Richardson, 1845)
- Specific name:
polyzona
- Genus:
Echidna
(
- Subfamily:
Muraeninae
(
- Family:
Muraenidae
(
- Suborder:
Muraenoidei
(
- Order:
Anguilliformes
(
- Cohort:
Elopomorpha
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Echidna leihala Jenkins • Echidna polyzona • Echidna polyzona (Richardson, 1845) • Muraena polyzona • Muraena polyzona Richardson • Muraena polyzona Richardson, 1845 • Poecilophis pikei Bliss
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 12-Nov-1996
Similar Species
Members of the genus Echidna
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species and subspecies in this genus:
E. catenata (Little Banded Eel) · E. delicatula (Fine-Speckled Moray) · E. leucotaenia (White-Banded Moray Eel) · E. nebulosa (Bosch´ Moray Eel) · E. nocturna (Palenose Moray) · E. peli (Pebbletooth Moray) · E. polyzona (Many Banded Moray Eel) · E. rhodochilus (Pink-Lipped Moray Eel) · E. unicolor (Unicolor Moray)
More Info
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Further Reading
- A catalog of the fishes of Formosa. By David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie institute, 1909. url p. 173.
- A catalog of the fishes of the island of Formosa, or Taiwan: based on the collections of Dr. Hans Sauter / by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1907?] url p. 173.
- An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 6.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 100, p. 100, p. 101, p. 102, p. 102, p. 20, p. 21.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 223.
- Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 203, p. 208, p. 241.
- Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 129.
- Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1870. url p. 129.
- Catalogue of type specimens of fishes in Chicago Natural History Museum [by] Marion Grey. 32 1947 [Chicago]1947. url p. 140.
- Check-list of species of fishes known from the PhilippineArchipelago, by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1910. url p. 11.
- Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 11.
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 145, p. 472.
- Hawaiian fishes; a handbook of the fishes found among the islands of the central Pacific ocean, by Spencer Wilkie Tinker. .. illustrated by Gordon S. C. Chun and Y. Oda. Honolulu, Hawaii, Tongg publishing company, 1944. url p. 61.
- Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 4 1906-1911 Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 173, p. 422.
- NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 5.
- Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 12.
- Report on a collection of marine fishes from North Borneo. 36 1957 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 349.
- The Philippine journal of science. 23 1923 Manila. url p. 194, p. 196.
- The fishes of India: being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon / by Francis Day. London: B. Quaritch, [1875]-1878. url p. 673.
- The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. London, B. Quaritch, 1878-88. url .
- The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 203.
- The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L. F. de Beaufort Leiden, E. J. Brill ltd., 1911- url p. 345, p. 346, p. 347, p. 431.
Notes
Contributors
- Berra, Tim M. (from FishBase).
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: iziko South African Museum - Fish Collection
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
- National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
- Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
- University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 126162
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-25597
- Fishbase Species ID: 5389
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13841961
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 161177
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 109621
Footnotes
- Lieske, E. and R. Myers (1994). Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. [back]
- Mean = -1,340.140 meters (-4,396.785 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,671.810 based on 123 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
