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Moringua bicolor

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Eel

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Chordata

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Moringua, Eel, Moringua edwardsi, Moringuidae, Purple spaghetti‑eel

Moringua bicolor, the bicolor spaghetti eel, is an eel in the family Moringuidae (spaghetti/worm eels). It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856. 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.

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

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