Kingdom Animalia Family Moringuidae Genus Moringua Order Eel | Class Actinopterygii Phylum Chordata Rank Species | |
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Similar 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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