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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).
New Zealand longfin eels breed only once at the end of their lives, making a journey of thousands of kilometres from New Zealand to their spawning grounds near Tonga. [14] [15] Their eggs (of which each female eel produces between 1 and 20 million) are fertilized in an unknown manner, but probably in deep tropical water. [16]
New Zealand longfin eel is a traditional Māori food in New Zealand. In Italian cuisine, eels from the Valli di Comacchio, a swampy zone along the Adriatic coast, are especially prized, along with freshwater eels of Bolsena Lake and pond eels from Cabras, Sardinia.
New Zealand is investigating the mysterious death of thousands of eels in a stream on the country’s North Island.. An estimated 3,500 juvenile eels were found dead in the Kauritutahi stream ...
New Zealand longfin eel; Polynesian longfinned eel; Speckled longfin eel; See also. Short-finned eel This page was last edited on 22 May 2018, at 17:59 (UTC). Text is ...
Anguilla dieffenbachii J. E. Gray, 1842 (New Zealand longfin eel) Anguilla interioris Whitley, 1938 (Highlands longfin eel) Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1847 (Japanese eel) Anguilla luzonensis S. Watanabe, Aoyama & Tsukamoto, 2009 (Philippine mottled eel) Anguilla malgumora Schlegel ex Kaup 1856 (Indonesian longfinned eel)
Most eels live in the shallow waters of the ocean and burrow into sand, mud, or amongst rocks. A majority of eel species are nocturnal and thus are rarely seen. Sometimes, they are seen living together in holes, or "eel pits". Some species of eels live in deeper water on the continental shelves and over the slopes deep as 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).
1920s illustration of the body and mouth by Louis Thomas Griffin. The broadgilled hagfish or New Zealand hagfish (Eptatretus cirrhatus), also known by its Māori language name tuere, is a hagfish found around New Zealand and the Chatham Islands as well as around the south and east coasts of Australia, at depths between 1 and 900 metres.