Echidna nebulosa (Ahl 1789)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 50

Echidna nebulosa (Ahl 1789) — Snowflake moray

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 81), based on ZMH 16484.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 0.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa east to Panama, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, Johnston Atoll and Hawaiian Islands, south to Western Australia at 22°42'S and New Caledonia. Found on the reef flat and in coral reefs, often resting during the day under pieces of dead coral, 0–48 m depth. Marine.