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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 Highlands long-finned eel (Anguilla interioris, also known as the New Guinea eel) [2] is an eel in the family Anguillidae. [3] It was described by Gilbert Percy Whitley in 1938. [4] It is a tropical eel known from freshwaters in eastern New Guinea. The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater but migrate to the ocean to breed.
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
Moringua macrochir, the longfin spaghetti eel, is an eel in the family Moringuidae (spaghetti/worm eels). [1] It was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1855. [ 2 ] It is a tropical , marine and freshwater eel which is known from Batu Island , Indonesia , and Christmas Island , in the eastern Indian Ocean .
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]
The Bean's sawtooth eel (Serrivomer beanii, also known commonly as the longfin sawpalate, the saw-tooth snipe eel, the sawtooth eel, the shortnosed snipe eel, and the stout sawpalate [3]) is an eel in the family Serrivomeridae (sawtooth eels). [4] It was described by Theodore Gill and John Adam Ryder in 1883. [5]
The short-finned eel is known to Māori as tuna, alongside the endemic New Zealand longfin eel. [11] They had a highly developed fishery for freshwater eels before the arrival of Europeans, and an extensive knowledge of the ecology of eels, harvesting them through a variety of techniques. Present-day recreational anglers catch and eat them ...
The longfin spotted snake eel (Myrichthys aspetocheiros) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [2] It was described by John E. McCosker and Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt in 1993. [3] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. [1]