Echidna peli

Echidna peli
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Muraenidae
Genus:	Echidna
Species:	E. peli
Binomial name
	Echidna peli; (Kaup, 1856)

Echidna peli is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.[2] It was first named by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856,[2] and is commonly known as the pebbletooth moray.[3]

The fish is named in honor of Hendrik Severinus Pel (1818-1876) the Dutch Governor of the Gold Coast which is now Ghana, who sent the type specimen to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, Netherlands.[4]

References

Smith, D.G. (2015). "Echidna peli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T195684A2402261. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T195684A2402261.en.
Echidna peli at www.fishbase.org.
Common names for Echidna peli at www.fishbase.org.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order ANGUILLIFORMES: Families PROTANGUILLIDAE, SYNAPHOBRANCHIDAE, HETERENCHELYIDAE, MYROCONGRIDAE, MURAENIDAE, CHLOPSIDAE and DERICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 18 November 2021.

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[1] Smith, D.G. (2015). "Echidna peli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T195684A2402261. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T195684A2402261.en.

[Fishbase-2] Echidna peli at www.fishbase.org.

[3] Common names for Echidna peli at www.fishbase.org.

[ETYFish-4] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order ANGUILLIFORMES: Families PROTANGUILLIDAE, SYNAPHOBRANCHIDAE, HETERENCHELYIDAE, MYROCONGRIDAE, MURAENIDAE, CHLOPSIDAE and DERICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 18 November 2021.