Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Bengali:
Banehara
Common Names in Burmese:
Nga-Mee-Toung
Common Names in Creole, French:
Z´amab, Z´anguille
Common Names in Danish:
Indisk Broget
Common Names in English:
European Eel, Freshwater Eel, Indian Longfin Eel, Indian Mirrorfish, Indian Mottled Eel, Long Finned Eel, Starry Moray
Common Names in Kannada:
Hanchu Mennu, Hanchumeenu
Common Names in Malayalam:
Aarel, Vilangu
Common Names in Marathi:
Aheer, Ahir
Common Names in Nepalese:
Rajbam
Common Names in Nyanja:
Nkunga
Common Names in Sinhalese:
Gal Arndha, Ganga Arndha, Kabara Arndha, Kaha Arndha, Vali Arndha
Common Names in Spanish:
Anguia, Anguila, Angula
Common Names in Tamil:
Vallangoo, Vellangoo, Vilangu
Description
Physical Description
Size/Age/Growth
Males are commonly 80 cm (Total Length) in length when caught/marketed, but may be as large as 120 cm (Total Length).
Habitat
Lives in freshwaters , but also occurs in estuaries and in the sea during early life and near maturity[1]. Occurs in freshwater streams , pools and reservoirs and commonly found in mud substrates of tanks and in deep rock pools of rivers [2].
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,379 meters (0 to 4,524 feet).[3]
Biome: Marine .
Biology
Migration
Catadromous .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Elopomorpha
()
- Greenwood et al., 1966
- Order:
Anguilliformes
()
- Suborder:
Anguilloidei
()
-
- Family:
Anguillidae
()
- Genus:
Anguilla
()
- Schrank, 1798
- Specific name:
bengalensis
- Subspecies:
bengalensis
- Scientific name: - Anguilla bengalensis bengalensis
- Subspecies:
bengalensis
- Specific name:
bengalensis
- Genus:
Anguilla
(
- Family:
Anguillidae
(
- Suborder:
Anguilloidei
(
- Order:
Anguilliformes
(
- Cohort:
Elopomorpha
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus • Anguilla bengalensis (Gray • Anguilla bengalensis (Non Gray • Anguilla nebulosa nebulosa Mcclelland • Muraena bengalensis Gray
Similar Species
Members of the genus Anguilla
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 29 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. anguilla (European Eel) · A. anguilla rostrata (Freshwater Eel) · A. australis (Eel) · A. australis australis (Australian Short-Finned Eel) · A. bengalensis (African Mottled Eel) · A. bengalensis bengalensis (European Eel) · A. bengalensis labiata (African Mottled Eel) · A. bicolor (Indonesian Shortfin Ee) · A. bicolor bicolor (Amalona) · A. bicolor pacifica (Indian Short-Finned Eel) · A. celebesensis (Celebes Longfin Eel) · A. conger (New Zealand Longfin Eel) · A. dieffenbachii (New Zealand Longfin Eel) · A. interioris (Highlands Long-Finned Eel) · A. japonica (Freshwater Eel) · A. malgumora (Indonesian Longfinned Eel) · A. marmorata (Madagascar Mottled Eel) · A. megastoma (Polynesian Longfinned Eel) · A. mossambica (African Longfin Eel) · A. myriaster (Conger Eel) · A. nebulosa (African Mottled Eel) · A. nebulosa nebulosa (African Mottled Eel) · A. obscura (Pacific Shortfinned Freshwater Eel) · A. oceanica (American Conger) · A. pacifica (Indian Short-Finned Eel) · A. reinhardti (Australian Longfinned Eel) · A. reinhardtii (Australian Longfinned Eel) · A. rostrata (Freshwater Eel) · A. virescens (Highlands Rainbowfish)
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Further Reading
- Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. 2905. ISBN: 0-940228-47-5.
- Menon, A.G.K. (1999). Check list - fresh water fishes of India. p. 234-259. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Publ., Occas. Pap. No. 175, 366 p.
- Rahman, A.K.A. (1989). Freshwater fishes of Bangladesh. Zoological Society of Bangladesh. Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka. 364 p.
- Shrestha, J. (1994). Fishes, fishing implements and methods of Nepal. Smt. M.D. Gupta, Lalitpur Colony, Lashkar (Gwalior), India. 150 p.
- Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran (1991). Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 1. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. 541 p.
- U Hla Win (1987). Checklist of fishes of Burma. Ministry of Livestock Breeding and Fisheries, Department of Fisheries, Burma.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- Hutchins, Barry (from FishBase).
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3862763
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-23364
- Fishbase Species ID: 1272
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13598148
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 102121
Footnotes
- Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran (1991). Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 1. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. 541 p. [back]
- Menon, A.G.K. (1999). Check list - fresh water fishes of India. p. 234-259. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Publ., Occas. Pap. No. 175, 366 p. [back]
- Mean = 685.620 meters (2,249.409 feet), Standard Deviation = 481.870 based on 39 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
