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The Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica; nihon unagi (日本鰻)[2]) is a species of anguillid eel found in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam, [3] as well as the northern Philippines. Like all the eels of the genus Anguilla and the family Anguillidae, it is catadromous, meaning it spawns in the sea but lives parts of its life in freshwater.
The spawning area of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, has also been found. Their breeding site is to the west of the Suruga seamount (14–17°N, 142–143°E), near the Mariana Islands. [11] and their leptocephali are then transported to the west to East Asia by the North Equatorial Current.
The discovery of the spawning area of the American and European eels in the Sargasso Sea is one of the more famous anecdotes in the history of ichthyology. The spawning areas of some other anguillid eels, such as the Japanese eel, and the giant mottled eel, were also discovered recently in the western North Pacific Ocean.
Eels are evading becoming supper by slipping out of hungry predators. A study published on Monday, Sept. 9, in the journal Current Biology has found that, while the Japanese eel (or Anguilla ...
The Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus), also known as rice eel, ricefield eel, rice paddy eel[3] or white rice-field eel, [1] is a commercially important air-breathing species of fish in the family Synbranchidae. It occurs in East and Southeast Asia, where it is commonly sold and eaten throughout the region. It has been introduced to two areas ...
The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America. Freshwater eels are fish belonging to the elopomorph superorder, a group of phylogenetically ancient teleosts. [2] The American eel has a slender, supple, snake-like body that is covered with a mucus layer, which makes the eel ...
Freshwater eel poaching and smuggling. Freshwater eel poaching and smuggling have emerged in recent years as a direct response to the sustained popularity of eels as food combined with the eels' low population, endangered status, and subsequent protections. Freshwater eel are elongated fish in the Anguillidae family of ray-finned fish.
The Kidako moray (Gymnothorax kidako) is a species of marine fish in the family Muraenidae. It inhabits coral reefs or lagoons and could be found in tropical and subtropical seas near Taiwan, Japan, and Australia. The species is diurnal, which means it is more active in the daytime than the nighttime. It is also piscivorous: it consumes fish ...