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Abaia is a huge, magical eel in Melanesian mythology. [1] According to Melanesian mythology the Abaia is a type of large eel which dwells at the bottom of freshwater lakes in the Fiji, Solomon and Vanuatu Islands. The beast is said to consider all creatures in the lake its children and protects them furiously against anyone who would harm or ...
Abaia: Eel: Melanesian Mythology: Fur-Bearing Trout: Trout: North America: a fictional creature native to the northern regions of North America. Ikaroa: Māori Mythology: A long fish said to have given birth to all the stars in the Milky Way or to be the Mother Goddess of all the stars. Jasconius: An enormous fish in the story of Saint Brendan ...
Abaia – Huge magical eel. Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) – Savage humanoid with backward feet. Abath – One-horned animal. Abura-sumashi – Creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture. Acephali – Headless humanoids. Acheri – Disease-bringing ghost. Achiyalabopa – Huge bird god.
Abaia; Gurangatch; Hippocamp; Ika-Roa; Il Belliegha - (Malta) Eel like monster with a frog tongue and a hand on the tip of its tail that eats children who get too close to open wells. Isonade; Namazu; Ningyo; Kun; Salmon of Wisdom; Shachihoko (Japanese) – a creature with the head of a tiger and the body of a carp
[23] [24] As open ocean voyagers, eels need the carrying capacity of the swimbladder (which makes up 3–6% of the eel's body weight) to cross the ocean on stored energy alone. Because the eels are catadromous (living in fresh water but spawning in the sea), dams and other river obstructions can block their ability to reach inland feeding grounds.
Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera. They are pelagic fishes, found in every ocean, mostly at depths of 300 ...
The young eel larvae live only in the ocean and consume small particles called marine snow. Anguillid eels lay adhesive demersal eggs (eggs that are free-floating or attached to substrate), and most species have no parental care. [29] Japanese eels (A. japonica) can lay between 2 million and 10 million eggs. [22]
Congroidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels.These eels are mostly marine, although a few species of snake eel will enter freshwater, and they are found in tropical and tempareate waters throughout the world. [2]