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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.
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 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.
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 Polynesian longfinned eel (Anguilla megastoma), also known as the Pacific long-finned eel, [2] is an eel in the family Anguillidae. [3] It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856. [ 4 ] It is a tropical eel found in freshwaters in the Pacific , including Sulawesi , Indonesia ; the Society Islands , and Pitcairn .
Longfin eel may refer to: African longfin eel; Celebes longfin eel; Highlands long-finned eel; New Zealand longfin eel; Polynesian longfinned eel; Speckled longfin ...