Short-finned eel - Wikipedia
The short-finned eel (Anguilla australis), also known as the shortfin eel, is one of the 15 species of eel in the family Anguillidae. It is native to the lakes, dams and coastal rivers of south-eastern Australia, New Zealand, and much of the South Pacific, including New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, Tahiti, and Fiji.
Anguillidae - Freshwater Eels - The Australian Museum
Explore images and fact sheets of the Anguillid family. As its name implies, the Freshwater Moray also lives in freshwater, but it is classified in the family Muraenidae, not Anguillidae. The family Anguillidae contains a single genus, Anguilla. There are about 20 species worldwide with four species known from Australia.
The mystery of Australia's freshwater eels - Finterest
2024年4月3日 · The larval eels are washed down the east Australian coast by the East Australian Current. As the leaf-like larvae (leptocephali) approach the continental shelf they grow into the traditional eel shape (glass eels) and the unpigmented glass eels enter fresh water in spring–summer and then transform into pigmented young eels.
Eels can travel over land, climb walls and take down serious prey.
2022年1月8日 · Freshwater eels make epic journeys to and from the ocean. They may be no match for saltwater crocs or great white sharks, but for their size, our freshwater eels are surprisingly hardcore. These slippery fish can travel over land, take down serious prey, and climb walls — all without any freaking legs!
Family ANGUILLIDAE - Fishes of Australia
Freshwater eels are imortant food fishes throughout their range. They are marketed fresh, smoked, canned or freshly cooked, as well as being sold live as glass eels or juveniles for stocking purposes. Eels are exported live and frozen from Australia.
Anguilla australis - Fishes of Australia
Southern Shortfin Eels have long cylindrical bodies, and continuous dorsal, caudal and anal fins with the dorsal fin originating above or slightly in front of the anal fin. Adults spend up to 20 years in freshwaters, before undertaking an oceanic migration to breed in the Coral Sea.
Native Fish Australia
Short finned eels have an interesting life-cycle. The mature adults migrate from fresh water to the sea in order to spawn after which it is believed they die. Where they actually spawn is uncertain but is believed to be in the South Coral Sea off the coast of North Queensland.
Eels (Short and Long-finned) - NSW Department of Primary …
Long-finned Eels have an olive-green, heavily mottled back and sides and a silvery-white to pale yellow belly. They are the largest freshwater eel in Australia, with females growing much larger than males. It is a good recreational species because of its large size and strength.
Longfin Eel, Anguilla reinhardtii Steindachner 1867 - Fishes of Australia
Longfin Eels spend most of their lives in freshwater, migrating to spawn in deep waters of the Coral Sea. As their transparent leptocephalus larvae grow, they metamorphose into glass eels, then pigmented elvers as they reach coastal waters.
Short-finned eel - VFA
2017年8月15日 · This is the sole spawning site for all Australian and New Zealand freshwater eels, with some eels having to travel in excess of 3,000 kilometres to get there. They begin their lives at this spawning site, at a depth of 200 m, as tiny transparent larvae.