Muraena kailuae = leopard moray eel (Enchelycore pardalis) Muraena kailuae Jordan & Evermann. Type
Subject: Morays, Muraena
Tag: Fish
Date 1905
Author David Starr Jordan (1851–1931); Barton Warren Evermann (1853–1932)
Source/Photographer
English: Jordan, David Starr; Evermann, Barton Warren (1905) Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, With a General Account of the Fish Fauna, Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, vol. 23 for 1903, part I, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_42379_Muraena_kailuae_Jordan_%26_Evermann_Type.jpeg
The leopard moray eel, tiger moray eel or dragon moray (Enchelycore pardalis), is a species of marine fish in the family Muraenidae. The leopard moray eel is widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific oceans from Réunion to the Hawaiian, Line and Society Islands, north to southern Japan, southern Korea, and south to New Caledonia. This eel is characterized by its narrow, curved jaws, vivid red stripes on the head, and elongated tubular nostrils.
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae
Genus: Enchelycore
Species: Enchelycore pardalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
