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Celebes longfin eel

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Celebes longfin eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Anguilliformes
Family:
Anguillidae
Genus:
Anguilla
Species:
A. celebesensis
Binomial name
Anguilla celebesensis
Kaup, 1856
Synonyms[2]
  • Anguilla amboinensis Peters, 1866
  • Anguilla ancestralis Ege, 1939
  • Anguilla celebensis Kaup, 1856
  • Anguilla cellebesensis Kaup, 1856

The Celebes longfin eel[3] (Anguilla celebesensis) is an eel in the family Anguillidae.[4] It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856.[5] It is a tropical eel known from freshwaters in the Western Pacific, including Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, and Western and American Samoa. The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater but migrate to the ocean to breed. Males can reach a maximum total length of 150 centimetres.[4]

The Celebes longfin eel is minorly commercial in fisheries.[4]

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN2014.1
  2. ^ Synonyms of Anguilla celebesensis at www.fishbase.org.
  3. ^ Common names for Anguilla celebesensis at www.fishbase.org.
  4. ^ a b c Anguilla celebesensis at www.fishbase.org.
  5. ^ Kaup, J. J., 1856 [ref. 2573] Catalogue of the apodal fish in the collection of the British Museum. London. 1-163, Pls. 1-19.


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