#freshwater eel

[drhoz]

#2582 - Aguilla dieffenbachii - New Zealand Longfin Eel 

AKA ōrea.

Aotearoa's only endemic freshwater eel (the other two are variously also found in Australia, or introduced from Australia) and the largest. Females can be over a meter and a half long.

A very important food for the Māori, but now numbers have seriously declined and the species is considered endangered. One reason is that they only mate once, and they take 20 to 60 years to reach adulthood. When they do, they leave freshwater and head far out to sea to the ocean near Tonga, breed, and die. Only a handful of the 1 to 10 million eggs each female lays will survive to repeat the process.

If they can't find a way back to the sea (rare, since they can cross open ground if they have to) the females reabsorb their eggs and can live past a century. The ones in the tank at the Hotitika National Kiwi Centre used to live in a pond behind a canning plant where food was abundant and life carefree.

The returning young are pretty agile too, as their swim upstream - elvers have been seen climbing near vertical surfaces over 40m high.

The eels are omnivorous and opportunistic feeders - you may have seen the video where they descend on a pizza like elongated pirahna.

Hokitika, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Happy Wet Beast Wednesday!

New Zealand long fined eel - credit

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look how pretty and detailed Eastward is!... youu should play it

[dailycreatures]

Creature 93

European eel

The European eels Latin name is Anguilla-Anguilla which is fun to say. These eels are born in the ocean, migrate to freshwater, then migrate back to the ocean to lay eggs and die. Captive European eels can live over 80 years. They are about 3 feet long.

fact and image source: wikipedia

[thebkthings]

Grilling Freshwater Eel at Home in a Frying Pan

This time, I decided to grill freshwater eel at home. I missed the taste of eel grilled over charcoal during my camping days, so after some consideration, I decided to give it a try. In the outskirts of Chungju, where I live, there are freshwater eel farms. These farms sell pre-grilled eel, and I had tried grilling it in a frying pan at home before, but the result wasn’t great. However, I…

[fidenciocryptidcreechur]

EEEL

i love eels, they're such goobers.

Hayyy I saw your fish art and I like it and uhhh do you take requests :3 if so can you draw an eel plsssss I love eels...

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[samimarkart]

⚡️electric eel! ⚡️

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Eel tailed catfish (Tandanus tandanus)

Photos thanks to Joel Sartore!

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My favourite budget Sushi Express (争鲜) revamped their takeaway outlets calling it Sushi GoGo (争鲜gogo). I love their Aburi Salmon Bento (S$6.50) which comes with 8 pieces of torched salmon sushi brushed with savoury brown sauce and topped with sesame seeds. The salmon is melt in the mouth delicious over the sushi rice.

You get an assortment of their hot sellers in this 10 Pcs Popular Sushi Bento (S$6). Let’s see what is included in here – seared salmon belly, raw scallop, two types of octopus, cooked scallop, salmon, prawn, crabstick, tamagoyaki and unagi (freshwater eel).

[eelposting]

"what else is going on with eels?!" Gonna reply to this! European eels are critically endangered. Since the 70s, the number of eels in Europe went down by 90, possibly 98%.. they are overfished, trafficked, but are also victims of diseases, pollution and dams. So yea, European eels aren't having it easy, unfortunately... We also aren't 100% sure how they reproduce, so conversation is even harder because we can't breed them (and so we can't just breed them and put them back in the wild, and we also can't breed them for food. So people who do eat eels kinda contribute to the problem, sorry.)

Source

You can also read this article to learn more,and see some of the action taken in the UK to help the eels!

What do we think about this fellow Redwallers

[drhoz]

#2915 - Anguilla australis - Short-finned Eel

Native to the lakes and coastal rivers of south-eastern Australia, New Zealand, and much of the South Pacific, but they breed somewhere in the Coral Sea somewhere near New Caledonia, swimming thousands of kilometers to do so.

Caught extensively for food - in SW Victoria the Gunditjmara people built extensive systems of weirs, canals and ponds from lava blocks, to trap passing eels and ensure a year-round food supply. These fish traps are at least eight thousand years old.

Sydney, New South Wales

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I love my eel plushie I hope you like it too

[blessedscavengers]

an american eel

made in 2024

[eelposting]

Think about eels everyday, do it!! For the eels!!!!!

im a big fan of long fish. sturgeon, arapaima, gar. just normal fish that have been stretched out

[anabantoid]

Noses :)

[typhlonectes]

Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel (Pisces, Mastacembelidae) from the Zhu-Jiang Basin, with a note on the type locality of S. sinensis 

Peng Shan, Guangyu Li, E Zhang

Abstract

Background

The spiny eel genus Sinobdella belongs to the family Mastacembelidae of the order Synbranchiformes. Kottelat and Lim (1994) utilised Rhynchobdella sinensis as the type species to propose the genus. Currently, it contains a single species widespread in eastern and southern China and northern Vietnam.

New information

Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel, is here described from the Xi-Jiang of the Zhu-Jiang Basin in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China. It differs from the single congeneric species S. sinensis in having a more or less white-brown reticulated pattern on the flank, two tubular anterior nostrils longer than or equal to the rostral appendage, an anal fin heavily mottled with dark brown markings and white spots and bearing a narrow white distal margin; shorter pre-anal length; and fewer abdominal vertebrae. The validity of this new species is corroborated by its monophyly recovered in a COI gene-based phylogenetic analysis and its significant sequence divergence with S. sinensis. A note on the type locality of S. sinensis is also given; its type specimen is possibly from mountain streams of Jiangxi Province, in the lower Chang-Jiang Basin.

Read the paper here: Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel (Pisces, Mastacembelidae) from the Zhu-Jiang Basin, with a note on the type locality of S. sinensis (Bleeker, 1870) (pensoft.net)