🦋 Family

Anguillidae

7 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Anguilliformes › Anguillidae

Anguilla rostrata, the American eel, is a migratory bony fish with a complex multi-stage life cycle centered on the Sargasso Sea.

Anguilla anguilla, the European eel, is a fish with five life stages that spawns in the Sargasso Sea and disperses to the North Atlantic.

Anguilla reinhardtii, the long-finned eel, is a freshwater eel native to parts of Oceania and Australia with variable growth sizes.

Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) is an endangered catadromous food fish native to East Asia with the unique protein UnaG.

Anguilla dieffenbachii, the New Zealand longfin eel, is a long-lived, slow-growing endemic catadromous eel native to New Zealand.

Anguilla australis, the short-finned eel, is a catadromous eel found in Australasia, harvested as food by local communities.

Anguilla marmorata, the giant mottled eel, is the largest species of anguillid eel with a broad Indo-Pacific distribution.

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