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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).
The giant leptocephalus (Coloconger giganteus) is a species of eel in the family Notacanthidae (spiny eels). [1] It was first described by Peter Henry John Castle in 1959. [ 2 ] [ a ] It is a marine , deep-water dwelling eel which is distributed worldwide.
Juvenile eels, known as elvers, migrate upstream between late November and early March when temperatures reach about 16C, according to the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric ...
Wētā is a loanword, from the Māori-language word wētā, which refers to this whole group of large insects; some types of wētā have a specific Māori name. [2] In New Zealand English, it is spelled either "weta" or "wētā", although the form with macrons is increasingly common in formal writing, as the Māori word weta (without macrons) instead means "filth or excrement". [3]
Anguilla dieffenbachii J. E. Gray, 1842 (New Zealand longfin eel) Anguilla interioris Whitley, 1938 (Highlands longfin eel) Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1847 (Japanese eel) Anguilla luzonensis S. Watanabe, Aoyama & Tsukamoto, 2009 (Philippine mottled eel) Anguilla malgumora Schlegel ex Kaup 1856 (Indonesian longfinned eel)
The term "eel" is also used for some other eel-shaped fish, such as electric eels (genus Electrophorus), swamp eels (order Synbranchiformes), and deep-sea spiny eels (family Notacanthidae). However, these other clades , with the exception of deep-sea spiny eels, whose order Notacanthiformes is the sister clade to true eels, evolved their eel ...
The giant moray is carnivorous and nocturnal, hunting its prey within the reef. It is known to engage in cooperative hunting with the roving coral grouper (Plectropomus pessuliferus). [7] These two fish species are complementary hunters: While the eel hunts in the reef, it may scare prey up and out of the reef, leaving them to be eaten by the ...
The giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis ... and even to the northern tip of New Zealand in the southern ... consisting mostly of fish including eels, with minor squid ...