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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 ...
Alabama bass: Micropterus henshalli: Alabama shad: Alosa alabamae: Albacore: Thunnus alalunga: Alewife: Alosa pseudoharengus: Alligator gar: Atractosteus spatula: Largest exclusively freshwater fish found in North America, measuring 8 to 10 feet. Almaco jack: Seriola rivoliana: Amazon sailfin catfish: Pterygoplichthys pardalis: Amberjack: Seriola
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]
An ala or hala (plural: ale or hali) is a female mythological creature recorded in the folklore of Bulgarians, Macedonians, and Serbs.Ale are considered demons of bad weather whose main purpose is to lead hail-producing thunderclouds in the direction of fields, vineyards, or orchards to destroy the crops, or loot and take them away.
A leptocephalus (meaning "slim head" [1]) is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members of the superorder Elopomorpha. This is one of the most diverse groups of teleosts, containing 801 species in 4 orders, 24 families, and 156 genera. This group is thought to have arisen in the Cretaceous period over 140 million ...
The Muraenoidei contains the following nine families: [2] Infraorder Muraenales. Family Heterenchelyidae Regan, 1912 (mud eels); Family Myrocongridae Gill, 1890 (myroconger eels) ...
Foster made a statement in this chapter that struck me so powerfully when I first read it more than 40 years ago, that I have remembered it through the years and find it useful now.
The Anguilloidei contains the following families: [2] Moringuidae Gill, 1885 (spaghetti eels); Anguillidae Rafinesque, 1810 (freshwater eels); Nemichthyidae Kaup. 1859 (snipe eels or threadtail snipe eels)