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Name : Echidna nebulosa

Common Name : Walm
Class : Actinopterygii
Order : Anguilliformes
Family : Muraenidae
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Description

A comparatively short moray eel with yellow eyes and 2 rows of large dendritic black blotches; black spots between blotches become irregularly linear with age


Size

Maximum length: 74.3 cm (TL), common length: 35-50 cm (TL)


Diet

Feeds on crustaceans and other invertebrates


Utilization

It is popular as an aquarium fish


Gears

Gillnet, trawl, trap