Scuticaria tigrina
Scuticaria tigrina is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[2] It is commonly known as the tiger reef-eel, tiger snake moray, tiger moray eel, tiger moray, tiger eel, spotted eel, or the spotted snake moray.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Muraenidae |
| Genus: | Scuticaria |
| Species: | S. tigrina |
| Binomial name | |
| Scuticaria tigrina (Lesson, 1828)[1] | |
References
- Lesson, R. P. (1828). "Description du nouveau genre Ichthyophis et de plusieurs espèces inédites ou peu connues de poissons, recueillis dans le voyage autour du monde de la Corvette La Coquille". Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 4: 399–400.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Scuticaria tigrina" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- Common names for Scuticaria tigrina at www.fishbase.org.
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