#2352 · 🐟 fish
Snowflake Moray
🇳🇱 Ster murene ·Echidna nebulosa
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what is it?
The snowflake moray ( Echidna nebulosa ) also known as the clouded moray among many various vernacular names, is a species of marine fish of the family Muraenidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,174 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jonas Niclas Ahl in 1789 (237 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Snowflake Moray
- Nederlands
- Ster murene
- scientific name
- Echidna nebulosa
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Muraenidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,174
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Jonas Niclas Ahl
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Muraenidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 54441, Wikidata Q614326, GBIF 5213106, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.