fangtooth moray
Enchelycore anatina (Lowe, 1838)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Enchelycore anatina - Fangtooth moray / Picopato / Murène tigrée, Tenerife.
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Open encyclopedia reference
The fangtooth moray (Enchelycore anatina), sometimes also known as the tiger moray or bird-eye conger, is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae found in warmer parts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, including the Canary Islands, Madeira and various other islands. It entered the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic and is now found occasionally in the eastern Basin, from Levantine waters and off Turkey, Greece, Croatia and Sicily.
Wikipedia contributors, Fangtooth moray; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T04:59:09.541328+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Enchelycore anatina (Lowe, 1838)
- Name authority
- (Lowe, 1838)
- Common name
- fangtooth moray
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Muraenidae
- Genus
- Enchelycore
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderAnguilliformes
- familyMuraenidae Rafinesque, 1815
- subfamilyMuraeninae Rafinesque, 1815
- genusEnchelycore Kaup, 1856
- speciesEnchelycore anatina (Lowe, 1838)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Enchelycore. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| chestnut morayEnchelycore carychroa Böhlke & Böhlke, 1976 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore kamara Böhlke & Böhlke, 1980 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| viper morayEnchelycore nigricans (Bonnaterre, 1788) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| slenderjaw morayEnchelycore octaviana (Myers & Wade, 1941) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore ramosa (Griffin, 1926) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore schismatorhynchus (Bleeker, 1853) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore bayeri (Schultz, 1953) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore pardalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore propinqua Mohapatra, Smith, Mohanty, Mishra & Tudu, 2017 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore bikiniensis (Schultz, 1953) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore lichenosa (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enchelycore nycturanus Smith, 2002 | MuraenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Lycodontis anatinus (Lowe, 1838) (Lowe, 1838) | synonym |
| Gymnothorax anatinus (Lowe, 1838) (Lowe, 1838) | synonym |
| Muraena anatina Lowe, 1838 Lowe, 1838 | synonym |
| Muraena sanctaehelenae Günther, 1870 Günther, 1870 | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126298 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:39NJT. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.