Muraenidae

palenose moray

Echidna nocturna

Fish Reaching Seventy One Centimeters in Gulf of California

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• South America
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

Echidna nocturna is a moray eel found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, in the Gulf of California and around Peru and the Galapagos Islands. It was first named by Cope in 1872, and is commonly known as the freckled moray or the palenose moray. It was discovered that Echidna nocturna and Muraena acutis are the same species.