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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 December 2024. Species of fish American eel Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Anguilliformes Family: Anguillidae Genus: Anguilla Species: A. rostrata Binomial name Anguilla rostrata ...
The second is Anguilla ignota, which is the fossil that represents the ancestor to all extant freshwater eels and marks the upper boundary of the age of anguillidae. Using these two fossil calibration points, freshwater eels are said to originate between 83 million years ago and 43.8 million years ago.
The Moringuidae are a small family of eels commonly known as spaghetti eels or worm eels, although the latter name is also shared with other families of eels. They are the sole extant family of the infraorder Moringuales within the suborder Anguilloidei of the order Anguilliformes. Moringuid eels are found in shallow tropical waters worldwide.
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 Indian mud moray eel, (Gymnothorax tile) is a moray eel found in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. [2] It was first named by Hamilton in 1822, [ 2 ] and is also commonly known as the freshwater moray or freshwater snowflake eel .
Some restaurants buy live eels. [3] In 1992, for example, a typical 12 kilogram (26.5 lb) marbled eel retailed for one thousand US dollars in China. [3] [11] A giant mottled eel in the lagoon of Wallis island (South Pacific). An eel habitat, Cheonjiyeon Waterfalls' pond, is a natural monument in South Korea. [12]
The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater at a depth range of 3–10 metres, but migrate to the Indian Ocean to breed. Males can reach a maximum total length of 121 centimetres and a maximum weight of 7,000 grams. [6] The eels feed primarily off of benthic crustaceans, mollusks, finfish and worms. [9]
The Heterenchelyidae or mud eels are a small family of eels native to the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and eastern Pacific. Heterenchelyids are bottom-dwelling fish adapted to burrowing into soft mud. [1] They have large mouths and no pectoral fins, and range from 32 to 149 cm (13 to 59 in) in length. Currently, eight species in two genera are ...