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The Japanese eel, *Anguilla japonica*, is a catadromous fish meaning it lives primarily in freshwater rivers and lakes but migrates to the Pacific Ocean for maturation. Native to East Asia, this species is critically endangered due to habitat loss and overfishing. Historically vital to Japan’s culi...
The European eel, *Anguilla anguilla*, is a catadromous fish belonging to the Anguillidae family. It’s notable for its complex life cycle involving migration between freshwater rivers of Europe and the Sargasso Sea for spawning. This species faces critical endangerment due to declining populations....
The New Zealand longfin eel (*Anguilla dieffenbachii*) is a catadromous freshwater fish endemic to the waterways of New Zealand. It is distinguished as one of the largest and longest-lived eel species in the world, capable of surviving over 100 years and reaching significant mass. The species is cha...
The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) is a catadromous fish native to Atlantic drainages of North America, the Caribbean, and parts of northern South America. It spawns in the Sargasso Sea; its transparent leaf-shaped larvae cross the Atlantic on ocean currents before becoming glass eels and entering...
The giant mottled eel, Anguilla marmorata, is a catadromous eel in the family Anguillidae. It is the most widely distributed species in the genus Anguilla, occurring from East Africa and the western Indian Ocean across the Indo-Pacific to French Polynesia. Adults spend much of their growth period in...
The New Zealand shortfin eel, Anguilla australis, is a migratory freshwater eel in the family Anguillidae. It lives throughout New Zealand, including the Chatham and Stewart Islands, and also occurs in southeastern Australia and several nearby Pacific islands; unlike the New Zealand longfin eel, its...
The Australian longfin eel, Anguilla reinhardtii, is a large anguillid fish native to eastern Australia, Tasmania, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, and New Zealand. It lives mainly in rivers, lakes, and swamps, with a preference for flowing water, and has a broad head, large mouth, and mottled olive...
The Pacific shortfinned eel (Anguilla obscura) is a freshwater eel in the family Anguillidae. It occurs in rivers and streams on Pacific islands, including Fiji and Samoa, and has relatively small eyes compared with some related eels. Like other Anguilla eels, it has a catadromous life cycle: adults...
The Indonesian shortfin eel (Anguilla bicolor bicolor) is a catadromous eel subspecies in the family Anguillidae. It is distributed through river systems and connected coastal waters of South and Southeast Asia, and it is commercially harvested in parts of that range. Catadromous eels generally grow...
The African longfin eel, Anguilla mossambica, is a freshwater eel native to eastern and southern Africa. It is catadromous, meaning that it spends much of its growth period in rivers or other fresh water before migrating to the sea to reproduce. The species was formally described from material assoc...
The Pacific shortfin eel is the common name for Anguilla bicolor pacifica, a subspecies of the shortfin eel Anguilla bicolor. It inhabits rivers and connected coastal waters draining toward parts of the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific. Like other anguillid eels, it has a catadromous life cy...
The speckled longfin eel, Anguilla nebulosa, is a freshwater and estuarine eel in the family Anguillidae. It is native to parts of South and Southeast Asia and has a long, cylindrical body marked with irregular dark spots or mottling. Like other anguillid eels, it is catadromous: adults migrate from...
The Indian mottled eel, Anguilla bengalensis bengalensis, is a freshwater eel in the family Anguillidae. It is native to river systems of the Indian subcontinent, including India and Sri Lanka, and has a mottled body pattern reflected in its common name. Like other Anguilla eels, it is catadromous,...
The Celebes longfin eel, Anguilla celebesensis, is a freshwater eel in the family Anguillidae. It is catadromous, meaning that it uses freshwater and brackish habitats during part of its life while reproducing in the sea, and its recorded range includes Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Guinea. Th...
The highlands long-finned eel, Anguilla interioris, is a catadromous freshwater eel in the family Anguillidae. It is known only from the eastern half of New Guinea, where it can use freshwater, brackish and marine environments during its life cycle. The species reaches about 80 cm total length and i...
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