Echidna peli explained

Echidna peli is a moray eel found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.^[1] It was first named by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856,^[1] and is commonly known as the pebbletooth moray.^[2]

The fish is named in honor of Hendrik Severinus Pel (1818-1876) the Dutch Governor of the Gold Coast which is now Ghana, who sent the type specimen to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, Netherlands.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=9031 Echidna peli
2. http://www.fishbase.org/comnames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=9031&GenusName=Echidna&SpeciesName=peli&StockCode=9352 Common names for Echidna peli
3. Web site: Order ANGUILLIFORMES: Families PROTANGUILLIDAE, SYNAPHOBRANCHIDAE, HETERENCHELYIDAE, MYROCONGRIDAE, MURAENIDAE, CHLOPSIDAE and DERICHTHYIDAE . 18 November 2021 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 22 September 2018 . 18 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211118204736/https://etyfish.org/anguilliformes1/ . dead .