Moringua bicolor

Moringua bicolor, the bicolor spaghetti eel, is an eel in the family Moringuidae (spaghetti/worm eels).[2] It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856.[3] It is a marine eel known from Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Laccadive Sea, in the Indo-West Pacific. It dwells in temperate waters at a known depth of 3 m.[2]

Moringua bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Anguilliformes
Family:
Moringuidae
Genus:
Moringua
Species:
M. bicolor
Binomial name
Moringua bicolor
Kaup, 1856
Synonyms[1]
  • Moringua bicolour Kaup, 1856

Moringua bicolor is the first moringuid eel to be described from Japan.[4]

References
  1. Synonyms of Moringua bicolor at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Moringua bicolor at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Kaup, J. J., 1856 [ref. 2572] Uebersicht der Aale. Archiv für Naturgeschichte v. 22 (no. 1): 41-77.
  4. Aizawa, M., 1992. First record of a worm eel, Moringua bicolor (Pisces: Moringuidae) from Japan. I.O.P. Div. News 3(1):2-3.


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