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Chain Moray
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Other fish (coast and sea)

Chain Moray

Echidna catenata (Bloch, 1795)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishChain Moray
DutchGoudgeaderde murene
SpanishMorena cadena
Chinese链蛇鳝
Scientific nameEchidna catenata (Bloch, 1795)

About this species

Echidna catenata, commonly known as the chain moray, is a moray eel found in shallow parts of the western Atlantic Ocean and from islands elsewhere in the Atlantic. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a maximum length of 165 cm (65 in) but a more common length is about 40 cm (16 in).

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderAnguilliformes
FamilyMuraenidae
GenusEchidna

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