Echidna peli

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lexID:: 4717
AphiaID:: 278679

Scientific:: Echidna peli
German:: Muräne
English:: Pebbletooth Moray

Category:: Muræner
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Anguilliformes (Order) > Muraenidae (Family) > Echidna (Genus) > peli (Species)
Initial determination:: (Kaup, ), 1856

Occurrence:: São Tomé e Principé, Cameroon, Senegal, Congo, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, Angola, Kap Verde, Tonga, Vestafrika, Østlige Atlanterhav
Size:: 55 cm - 100 cm
Temperature:: 22°C - 26°C
Food:: Predatory, Zoobenthos, invertebrater, Krabber, Krill, Mysis, Rejer, Skaldyr, Stenrejer, Taskekrabber
Tank:: ~ 1500 Liter
Difficulty:: Only for advanced aquarists

CITES:: Not evaluated

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Echidna amblyodon
Echidna catenata
Kettenmuräne
Echidna delicatula
Echidna leucotaenia
Echidna nebulosa
Sternfleckenmuräne
Echidna nocturna
Echidna peli
Muräne
Echidna polyzona
Ringelmuräne
Echidna rhodochilus
Echidna unicolor
Echidna xanthospilos
Muräne

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2012-10-11 19:39:44
Last edit:: 2012-10-11 19:39:44

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(Kaup, 1856)

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania to Angola, including Cape Verde and the offshore islands in the Bay of Biafra.

Biology:
Occurs in rocky, shallow-water habitats.
Feeds on crustaceans, small shrimps and young crabs.

Synonymised taxa:
Gymnothorax peli (Kaup, 1856)
Muraena peli (Kaup, 1856)
Poecilophis lecomtei Kaup, 1856
Poecilophis peli Kaup, 1856

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