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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 ...
284 ft (87 m) Sheepscot Pond (also called Sheepscot Lake) is the third-largest lake in Waldo County, Maine. It is in the township of Palermo, on the western edge of Waldo County. The lake has a maximum depth of 150 feet [1] with well-oxygenated water. It contains more than 20 species of fish, and has historically been stocked with salmon, lake ...
Sirena maculosa Rafinesque, 1818. The common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) is a species of salamander in the family Proteidae. [3] It lives an entirely aquatic lifestyle in parts of North America in lakes, rivers, and ponds. It goes through paedomorphosis and retains its external gills. [4]
Max. depth. 136 ft (41 m) [12] Water volume. 249,702 acre⋅ft (308,003,000 m 3) [3] Surface elevation. 574 ft (175 m) [11] The Fish River chain of lakes is a series of five lakes in the North Maine Woods region of northern Maine, in a tributary stream to the Fish River. [2] The lakes are an important northern Maine recreation area providing ...
Burbot. The burbot (Lota lota), also known as bubbot, [2] mariah, [3] loche, cusk, [4] freshwater cod, [5] freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, [6] or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere. It is the only member of the genus Lota, and is the ...
The qualifications for this list of Maine lakes is that the lake is located partially or entirely in Maine, named, and has a surface area of more than 10 acres (40,000 m 2). This makes it legally a great pond unless it is dammed, smaller than 10 acres (40,000 m 2 ) prior to damming, smaller than 30 acres (120,000 m 2 ) afterwards, and entirely ...
Shore length 1. 4.3 miles (6.9 km) Surface elevation. 100 feet (30 m) Settlements. Bryant Pond, Maine and Greenwood, Maine. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Christopher, also known as Bryant Pond, is a two-mile long lake in western Maine. The lake is located in the towns of Woodstock and Greenwood in Oxford County, Maine.
The European conger is the heaviest of all eels. Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from 5 cm (2 in) in the one-jawed eel (Monognathus ahlstromi) to 4 m (13 ft) in the slender giant moray. [7] Adults range in weight from 30 g (1 oz) to well over 25 kg (55 lb). They possess no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins.