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==Other references==
==Other references==
* {{FishBase genus | genus = Echidna | month = May | year = 2006}}
 


[[Category:Anguilliformes]]
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[[Category:True vipers - Synonymy]]
[[Category:True vipers - Synonymy]]
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Echidna
Barred moray, Echidna polyzona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Echidna
Forster, 1788
Species

See text.

Echidna is a genus moray eels in the family Muraenidae.

Species

Taxonomy

The name Echidna was also used by Merrem in 1820 to describe the genus Bitis (a group of African vipers), but is now listed in its synonymy.[1]

Cited references

  1. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).

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