Serpent elements figure among his offspring ; among his children by Echidna are: Cerberus ( a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail and a serpentine mane ); the serpent-tailed Chimaera ; the serpent-like chthonic water beast Lernaean Hydra ; and the hundred-headed serpentine dragon Ladon.

Joseph Eddy Fontenrose suggests that for Nonnus Campe is a Greek refiguring of Tiamat and that " she is Echidna under another name, as Nonnos indicates, calling her Echidnaean Enyo, identifying her snaky legs with Echidna's ", and " a female counterpart of his Typhon ".

In zebrafish, the orthologues of the three mammalian hh genes are: shh a, shh b, ( formerly described as tiggywinkle hedgehog named for Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a character from Beatrix Potter's books for children ), and indian hedgehog b ( formerly described as echidna hedgehog, named for the spiny anteater, though this may have also been a playful reference to Knuckles the Echidna, another character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games ).

Sonic continues to track down Robotnik as he travels through each zone looking for the Chaos Emeralds, once again coming into conflict with Knuckles the Echidna, who believes he is trying to steal them.

A relatively small number of species, for example the snowflake moray ( Echidna nebulosa ) and zebra moray ( Gymnomuraena zebra ), primarily feed on crustaceans and other hard-shelled animals, and they have blunt, molar-like teeth suitable for crushing.

While several species regularly are found in brackish water, very few species can be found in freshwater, for example the freshwater moray ( Gymnothorax polyuranodon ) and the pink-lipped moray eel ( Echidna rhodochilus ).

Spin-off publications from the comic include a Knuckles the Echidna series which ran for 32 issues ; Sonic X, a comic spin-off based on the cartoon of the same name, which lasted 40 issues, and Sonic Universe, a direct spin-off of the expanded universe of the original comic, which is still on-going.

He is most known for the roles of Tasuki ( Fushigi Yûgi ), Ban Mido ( GetBackers ), Nnoitra Gilga ( Bleach ), Basara Nekki ( Macross 7 ), Kabuto Yakushi ( Naruto ), Guts ( Berserk ), Knuckles the Echidna ( Sonic the Hedgehog series of games and the anime Sonic X ) Lee Pai-Long ( Shaman King ) and Nowaki Kusama ( Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance ).

At one point in the development process, there was a possibility for 4 playable characters: Knuckles the Echidna, Tiara Boobowski, Miles " Tails " Prower, and Sonic the Hedgehog, with each character having a unique gameplay style.

5D's, Knuckles the Echidna in some of the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, and is also known for his script adaptions of Kurokami: The Animation and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.

Rygar is about to receive a wreath from Princess Harmonia in a ceremony for a victorious naval battle, when Titans suddenly attack led by Echidna.

* Echidna ( genus ), a genus of moray eels

Echidna may also refer to:

There is also, in some versions, reference to an episode where Heracles met and impregnated a half-serpentine woman, known as Echidna ; her children, known as the Dracontidae, were the ancestors of the House of Cadmus.

Gaia also marries Tartarus and has Typhon, whom Echidna marries and has Orthos, Kerberos, Hydra, and Chimera.

Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as Echidna, The Gorgons ( Euryale, Stheno, and the famous Medusa ), The Graeae ( Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo ), and Ladon, also called the Drakon Hesperios (" Hesperian Dragon ", or dragon of the Hesperides ).

Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as Echidna, The Gorgons ( Euryale, Stheno, and the famous Medusa ), The Graeae ( Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo ), and Ladon, also called the Drakon Hesperios (" Hesperian Dragon ", or dragon of the Hesperides ).

Ladon, the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides, was also born of Echidna by Typhon, according to Apollodorus, and Hyginus, but according to Hesiod, Ladon was the offspring of Ceto and Phorcys.

Echidna is also sometimes identified as the mother by Heracles, of Scythes, an eponymous king of the Scythians, along with his brothers Agathyrsus and Gelonus.

The lion is usually considered to have been the offspring of Typhon ( or Orthrus ) and Echidna ; it is also said to have fallen from the moon as the offspring of Zeus and Selene, or alternatively born of the Chimera.

The park also supports an array of mammals including Short-beaked Echidna, the Western Quoll, Gilbert ’ s Dunnart, the Honey Possum, the Western Grey Kangaroo, the Western Brush Wallaby, Gould ’ s Wattled Bat and Mitchell ’ s Hopping Mouse.

The game is a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and follows on directly from the end of the game, in which Sonic defeated his enemy, Dr. Robotnik ; crash-landing on a floating island, Sonic encounters new character Knuckles the Echidna, and must once more retrieve the Chaos Emeralds while also working to stop Dr. Robotnik from relaunching his ship, the Death Egg.

* Genus † Murrhardtia ( Chelonia incertae sedis ; a possible junior synonym of Proterochersis )

Should this specimen turn out to be assignable to another genus, the generic name linked to it becomes a junior synonym, and the remaining taxa in the former genus need to be reassessed.

** Panthera schreuderi ( prehistoric felid †-probably junior synonym of European jaguar )

** Panthera toscana ( Tuscany lion or Tuscany jaguar †-probably junior synonym of European jaguar )

Probably a junior synonym of S. s. meridionalis.

Probably a junior synonym of S. s. scrofa.

Closely related to, and sometimes considered a junior synonym of, S. s. scrofa, but smaller and with proportionally longer tusks.

Former presence in these countries, where became extinct around 1900, is linked to ancient introductions by man, and S. s. sennaarensis is probably a junior synonym of S. s. scrofa.

Diceratus is thus a junior synonym of Nedoceratops.

Arguably, the taxa otherwise considered subspecies of A. lemurinus – brumbacki, griseimembra and zonalis – actually should be considered separate species, whereas A. hershkovitzi arguably is a junior synonym of A. lemurinus.

Parascaniornis, sometimes allied to the loons by early authors, was eventually determined to be a junior synonym of the hesperornithiform Baptornis.

Catostomoidea is usually treated as a junior synonym of Cobitioidea.

* Olympia, a junior synonym of the plant genus Hypericum ( St. John's-worts )

The baphetids have been referred to the family Loxommatidae, but this group was later shown to be a junior synonym of Baphetidae, which was named earlier in 1865.

: Lampetia is also a junior synonym of the geometer moth genus Erannis.

: Nunneley 1837 established Limax maculatus ( Gastropoda ), Wiktor 2001 classified it as a junior synonym of Limax maximus Linnæus 1758 from S and W Europe.

: Nunneley ( 1837 ) established Limax maculatus ( Gastropoda ), Wiktor ( 2001 ) classified it as a junior synonym of Limax ( Limax ) maximus Linnæus, 1758 from S and W Europe.

This was Limax ecarinatus Boettger, 1881, a junior synonym of K. maculatus Kaleniczenko, 1851.

Very similar to R. tarandus groenlandicus, and probably better regarded as a junior synonym of that subspecies.

According to McKenna and Bell ( 1997, p. 37 ), P. is a junior synonym of Loxaulax.

P. Jepseni is a junior synonym for Stygimys Jepseni.

: The tortrix moth genus Coccyx is nowadays considered a junior synonym of Cydia.

* Chinese Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus yunnanensis – P. sichuanensis is a junior synonym

* Nomen novum, a scientific name that is created specifically to replace a name that is a junior synonym or homonym