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Echidna delicatula (Fine-speckled moray; Mottled moray)

Synonyms: Poecilophis delicatulus; Siderea delicatula
Language: Czech; Japanese; Mahl; Malay; Malayalam; Mandarin Chinese; Samoan

Wikipedia Abstract

The Fine-speckled moray (Echidna delicatula, also known as the Mottled moray) is a moray eel (family Muraenidae). It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856, originally under the genus Poecilophis. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific, including Sri Lanka, Samoa, and Japan. It inhabits coral reefs. It can reach a maximum total length of 65 centimetres (26 in). The Mottled moray is a gonochoristic species.
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cucullanus okinawanus[1]
Helicometrina quadrorchis[1]
Heliconema baylisi[1]

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♦ 1Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0