FB-5389 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Anguilliformes Muraenidae Echidna Echidna polyzona (Richardson, 1845) Moreia listrada Balk-bontpaling Muréna mnohopásá Båndmuræne Banded moray Barred moray Dark-banded eel Girdled moray Girdled reef eel Many banded moray eel Ringed moray Ringed reef moray Striped moray Zebra eel Vöödiline nürisuumureen bonu Vyömureena Congre noir Shima-arashi-utsubo Pusi Puhi Payangitan Cá Chình Anguille raide raide Indang Kadukkamalanhi Mhunga kame Mudiveng Ogdok 多带蛇鳝(多带海鳝) 多帶蛇鱔(多帶海鱔) 多环蝮鯙 多環蝮鯙 节仔鳗 薯鳗 虎鳗 钱鳗 Echidna fascigula (Peters, 1855) Echidna leihala Jenkins, 1903 Muraena fascigula Peters, 1855 Muraena polyzona Richardson, 1845 Poecilophis pikei Bliss, 1883 1992-04-15 2024-05-28 Hiatt, R.W. and D.W. Strasburg0 Ecological relationships of the fish fauna on coral reefs of the Marshall Islands. Ecol. Monogr. 30(1):65-127. (Ref. 275) Herre, A.W.C.T.0 Check list of Philippine fishes. Res. Rep. 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Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ecpol_u2.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Ecpol_u2.jpg FB-pic-5389-12797 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/jpeg John E. Randall 1996-12-31 2000-07-17 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ecpol_u3.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Ecpol_u3.jpg FB-GeneralDescr-5389 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-04-15 00:00:00 2025-07-01 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 Inhabits reef flats, clear shallow lagoons, and seaward reefs (Ref. 9710). Benthic (Ref. 58302). Feeds mainly on small crustaceans during both day and night (Ref. 9710). Minimum depth reported taken from Ref. 86942. Chen, H.-M., K.-T. Shao and C.T. Chen 1994 A review of the muraenid eels (Family Muraenidae) from Taiwan with descriptions of twelve new records. Zool. Stud. 33(1):44-64. FB-DiagnosticDescr-5389 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-05-21 00:00:00 2013-04-12 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle Body grey with fine pale barring (Ref. 48635). Young with 25-30 dark brown bars separated by white narrow interspaces; bars become obscure with age where in large adults, the pattern becomes mottled brown; corner of mouth dark brown. Head usually lighter, yellowish with variable dark blotching (Ref. 48635). Description: Characterized by origin of dorsal fin anterior to gill opening; anus near middle of body; without canine teeth; conical to rounded molariform jaw teeth; broad plate vomer of molariform teeth (up to over 50 in large individuals) (Ref. 90102). Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen and R.C. Steene 1990 Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 506 p. (Ref. 2334) FB-Morphology-5389 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-05-21 00:00:00 2013-04-12 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 0; Vertebrae: 132 - 137 Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen and R.C. Steene 1990 Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 506 p. (Ref. 2334) FB-Distribution-5389 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-04-15 00:00:00 2020-08-26 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa (Ref. 33390) to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Tuamoto islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef. Myers, R.F. 1991 Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p. (Ref. 1602) FB-Uses-5389 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-04-15 00:00:00 2025-07-01 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat fisheries: subsistence fisheries; aquarium: commercial Miyasaka, A. 1993 A database on scientific and common names of fishes exported from Hawaii. The information was derived from the above mentioned database. A printout of the names is also available from the State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources, 1151 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. (Ref. 5358) FB-TrophicStrategy-5389 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1997-03-25 00:00:00 2018-02-21 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public polyzona http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Inhabits reef flats, clear shallow lagoons, and seaward reefs (Ref. 9710). Benthic (Ref. 58302). Feeds mainly on small crustaceans during both day and night (Ref. 9710). Hiatt, R.W. and D.W. Strasburg 1960 Ecological relationships of the fish fauna on coral reefs of the Marshall Islands. Ecol. Monogr. 30(1):65-127. (Ref. 275) FB-Size-5389 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-04-15 00:00:00 2025-07-01 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 80.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 137577)) Price, S.A., S.T. Friedman, K.A. Corn, O. Larouche, K. Brockelsby, A.J. Lee, M. Nagaraj, N.G. Bertrand, M. Danao, M.C. Coyne, J.R. Estrada, R. Friedman, E. Hoeft, M. Iwan, D. Gross, J.H. Kao, B. Landry, M.J. Linares, C. McGlinn and … 2022 FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions. Ecology 103(e3829):1-2. (Ref. 137577) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-5389 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-04-15 00:00:00 2025-07-01 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5389 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size reef-associated; marine; depth range 0 - 20 m (Ref. 90102) Allen, G.R. and M.V. Erdmann 2012 Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth, Australia: Universitiy of Hawai'i Press, Volumes I-III. Tropical Reef Research. (Ref. 90102)