Echidna nocturna (Cope, 1872) .

Freckled Moray or Palenose Moray. To 75 cm (29.5 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Bahía Santa Maria (24°47’N, 112°16’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) to Peru (Allen and Robertson 1994), including southern tip of Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 30 m (98 ft) (min.: Casellanos-Galindo et al. 2005; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995).