Bicolor spaghetti eel

Moringua bicolor

Forty Centimeters Eel from Japanese Waters

Temperate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Pacific Ocean
Africa
East Asia
Oceania
Southeast Asia
Anguilliform
Medium
Temperate fish

Moringua bicolor, the bicolor spaghetti eel, is an eel in the family Moringuidae (spaghetti/worm eels). It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856. It is a marine eel known from Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Laccadive Sea, in the Indo-West Pacific.

Class: Teleosts
Order: True Eels
Family: Moringuidae
Genus: Moringua
Maximum length: 40 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar to Fiji (Ref. 90102 ); north to Japan (Ref. 41282 ); south to , Indonesia (Ref. 45255 ).

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