Scuticaria
Encyclopedia
Scuticaria is a genus
of moray eel
in the family Muraenidae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moray eel
Moray eel
Moray eels are cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. The approximately 200 species in 15 genera are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water and a few, for example the freshwater moray can sometimes be found in freshwater...
in the family Muraenidae.
Species
- Scuticaria okinawaeScuticaria okinawaeScuticaria okinawae is a moray eel found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the Shorttailed snake moray, Shorttail moray, Seale's moray eel, or the Bennett's moray....
(D. S. JordanDavid Starr JordanDavid Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...
& SnyderJohn Otterbein SnyderJohn Otterbein Snyder was an American zoologist.As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at Stanford University and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the USS Albatross...
, 1901) (Shorttailed snake moray) - Scuticaria tigrinaScuticaria tigrinaScuticaria tigrina is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. 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....
(Lesson, 1828) (Tiger reef-eel)