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The New Zealand longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii) is a species of freshwater eel that is endemic to New Zealand. It is the largest freshwater eel in New Zealand and the only endemic species – the other eels found in New Zealand are the native shortfin eel (Anguilla australis), also found in Australia, and the naturally introduced Australian longfin eel (Anguilla reinhardtii).
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The speckled longfin eel, Australian long-finned eel or marbled eel (Anguilla reinhardtii) is one of 15 species of eel in the family Anguillidae. It has a long snake-like cylindrical body with its dorsal, tail and anal fins joined to form one long fin. The dorsal fin also often extends farther than the anal fin.
The Anguillidae are a family of ray-finned fish that contains the freshwater eels.All the extant species and six subspecies in this family are in the genus Anguilla, and are elongated fish of snake-like bodies, with long dorsal, caudal and anal fins forming a continuous fringe.
The African longfin eel [3] (Anguilla mossambica), also known simply as the longfin eel, is an eel in the family Anguillidae. [4] It was described by Wilhelm Peters in 1852, originally under the genus Muraena. [5] It is a tropical eel known from freshwaters in southern Kenya, Cape Agulhas, Madagascar, and New Caledonia.
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The mature eels then die, their eggs floating to the surface to hatch into very flat leaf-like larvae (called leptocephalus) that then drift along large oceanic currents back to New Zealand. [14] [17] This drifting is thought to take up to 15 months. [16] There have been no recorded captures of either the eggs or larvae of longfin eels. [14]
The Highlands long-finned eel (Anguilla interioris, also known as the New Guinea eel) [2] is an eel in the family Anguillidae. [3] It was described by Gilbert Percy Whitley in 1938. [4] It is a tropical eel known from freshwaters in eastern New Guinea. The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater but migrate to the ocean to breed.