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Moringua
Sign in to saveMoringua is a genus of eels of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Moringuidae, the spaghetti eels. These eels occur in shallow tropical and subtropical waters.
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Vinony's link graph records 15 inbound references to Moringua, and connects out to Anguilliformes, Animalia and Chordata.
It is catalogued under topics including Actinopterygii genera, Moringua and Moringuidae.
Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderAnguilliformes
- FamilyMoringuidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,046
- With media
- 24
- Family
- Moringuidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Fiji, Vanuatu, French Polynesia, Wallis And Futuna, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Australia
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Moringua is a genus of eels of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Moringuidae, the spaghetti eels. These eels occur in shallow tropical and subtropical waters.
==Species== Moringua contains these described species: Moringua abbreviata (Bleeker, 1863) Moringua bicolor Kaup, 1856 Moringua edwardsi (D. S. Jordan & Bollman, 1889) (spaghetti eel) Moringua ferruginea Bliss, 1883 (rusty spaghetti eel) Moringua guthriana (McClelland, 1844) (Bengal spaghetti eel) Moringua hawaiiensis Snyder, 1904 Moringua javanica (Kaup, 1856) (Java spaghetti eel) Moringua macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1863) Moringua macrochir Bleeker, 1855 Moringua microchir Bleeker, 1853 (lesser thrush eel) Moringua penni L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Penn's thrush eel) Moringua raitaborua (F. Hamilton, 1822) (purple spaghetti eel)
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