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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 Celebes longfin eel [3] (Anguilla celebesensis) is an eel in the family Anguillidae. [4] It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856. [5] It is a tropical eel known from freshwaters in the Western Pacific, including Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, and Western and American Samoa.
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 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.
Anguilla megastoma Kaup, 1856 (Polynesian longfin eel) Anguilla mossambica (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (African longfin eel) †Anguilla multiradiata Agassiz 1833–1845; Anguilla nebulosa McClelland, 1844 (mottled eel) Anguilla obscura Günther, 1872 (Pacific shortfinned eel) †Anguilla pachyura Agassiz 1833–1845 †Anguilla pfeili Schwarzhans 2012
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]
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The mottled eel [3] (Anguilla bengalensis), also known as the African mottled eel, the Indian longfin eel, the Indian mottled eel, the long-finned eel or the river eel, [4] is a demersal, catadromous [5] eel in the family Anguillidae. [6] It was described by John McClelland in 1844. [7]