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The New Zealand longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii) is a species of freshwater eel that is endemic to New Zealand. It is the largest freshwater eel in New Zealand and the only endemic species – the other eels found in New Zealand are the native shortfin eel (Anguilla australis), also found in Australia, and the naturally introduced Australian longfin eel (Anguilla reinhardtii).
The longfin snake-eel (Pisodonophis cancrivorus) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John Richardson in 1848. It has a Dorsal fin beginning above its pectoral fin with a snake -like upper body which is cylindrical, but compressed only along its extreme tail tip.
The speckled longfin eel, Australian long-finned eel or marbled eel (Anguilla reinhardtii) is one of 15 species of eel in the family Anguillidae. It has a long snake-like cylindrical body with its dorsal, tail and anal fins joined to form one long fin. The dorsal fin also often extends farther than the anal fin.
Myrichthys aspetocheiros McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1993 (longfin spotted snake eel) Myrichthys breviceps (J. Richardson, 1848) (Sharptail eel) Myrichthys colubrinus (Boddaert, 1781) (harlequin snake eel) Myrichthys maculosus (Cuvier, 1816) (tiger snake eel) Myrichthys magnificus (C. C. Abbott, 1860) (magnificent snake eel)
The Anguillidae are a family of ray-finned fish that contains the freshwater eels.All the extant species and six subspecies in this family are in the genus Anguilla, and are elongated fish of snake-like bodies, with long dorsal, caudal and anal fins forming a continuous fringe.
The longfin spotted snake eel (Myrichthys aspetocheiros) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [2] It was described by John E. McCosker and Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt in 1993. [3] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. [1]
The African longfin eel [3] (Anguilla mossambica), also known simply as the longfin eel, is an eel in the family Anguillidae. [4] It was described by Wilhelm Peters in 1852, originally under the genus Muraena. [5] It is a tropical eel known from freshwaters in southern Kenya, Cape Agulhas, Madagascar, and New Caledonia.
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