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The location of the State of Tennessee in the United States of America. Topographic map of Tennessee. The U.S. state of Tennessee has a uniquely diverse array of fresh-water fish species, owing to its large network of rivers and creeks, with major waterways in the state including the Mississippi River which forms its western border, the Tennessee River, the Cumberland River, and the Duck River.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 December 2024. Species of fish American eel Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Anguilliformes Family: Anguillidae Genus: Anguilla Species: A. rostrata Binomial name Anguilla rostrata ...
The second is Anguilla ignota, which is the fossil that represents the ancestor to all extant freshwater eels and marks the upper boundary of the age of anguillidae. Using these two fossil calibration points, freshwater eels are said to originate between 83 million years ago and 43.8 million years ago.
The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater at a depth range of 3–10 metres, but migrate to the Indian Ocean to breed. Males can reach a maximum total length of 121 centimetres and a maximum weight of 7,000 grams. [6] The eels feed primarily off of benthic crustaceans, mollusks, finfish and worms. [9]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF ... Monopterus is a genus of swamp eels native to Asia. [2] They live in various freshwater habitats and some have a ...
The zig-zag eel (Mastacembelus armatus Scopoli, 1777 [3]), also known as the Baim, [4] tire-track, tire-track spiny-eel, freshwater spiny eel, or marbled spiny eel, [2] is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Mastacembelidae.
Echidna leucotaenia, the whiteface moray, also known as the white-banded moray eel, [2] is a moray eel (family Muraenidae). [3] It was described by Schultz in 1943. [4] It is a tropical, marine and freshwater eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific, including East Africa, the Line Islands, the Tuamotu Islands, and Johnston Island.
An example are freshwater eels of genus Anguilla, whose larvae drift on the open ocean, sometimes for months or years, before travelling thousands of kilometres back to their original rivers (see eel life history). Fish that migrate in the opposite direction are called anadromous.