Abstract
A single specimen of Echidna xanthospilos (Bleeker, 1859) was captured off Great Nicobar Island. This finding represents a new addition to the muraenid fauna of India. This is one of the data-deficient species hitherto known only from five countries in the Indo–Pacific. The specimen is described and illustrated.
Highlights
A single specimen of Echidna xanthospilos (Bleeker, 1859) was captured off Great Nicobar Island
The family Muraenidae (Anguilliformes), commonly Marine faunal exploration in the Great Nicobar Island known as moray eels, is one of the most abundant and revealed the presence of the yellow spotted moray eel, diverse families of the true eels (Smith 2012)
To Rajan et al (2013), the Muraenidae is represented by 18 The methodology of measurements followed Böhlke and species assigned to 8 genera in the Andaman and Nicobar Randall (2000)
Summary
A single specimen of Echidna xanthospilos (Bleeker, 1859) was captured off Great Nicobar Island. The family Muraenidae (Anguilliformes), commonly Marine faunal exploration in the Great Nicobar Island known as moray eels, is one of the most abundant and revealed the presence of the yellow spotted moray eel, diverse families of the true eels (Smith 2012). Morays Echidna xanthospilos (Bleeker, 1859), which is reported occur worldwide in tropical and temperate seas, occurring as a new distributional record to India from from the shoreline to the edge of the continental shelf Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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