Species: Echidna nocturna, Freckled moray, Palenose moray
Echidna nocturna (Cope, 1872)
Palenose moray, Freckled moray
Snout short and jaws short, broad; front nostril tubular, rear one a small hole above front of eye; no canine teeth, molar-like teeth on roof of mouth; jaw teeth blunt becoming molar-like in adults; length of tail very slightly greater than ½ TL; gill opening a small slit at mid-flank; dorsal and anal fins skin covered, but evident; dorsal origin before gill opening, anal origin immediately after anus; tip of tail blunt, with a skin-covered fin; lateral line pores absent except for 2 pores above and before gill opening.
Dark brown to nearly blackish with scattered white to yellowish spots; front nostrils orange.
Maximum size, 75 cm.
Habitat: rocky and rubble bottoms.
Depth: 1-30 m.
Gulf of California to northern Peru.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Mud
- Mangrove
- Reef and soft bottom
- Estuary
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic worms
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- All species
- TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 75
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
