Animalia > Chordata > Anguilliformes > Muraenesocidae > Muraenesox > Muraenesox bagio

Muraenesox bagio (Silver eel; Pike eel; Pike conger; Common pike-conger; Common pike eel; Common pike conger; Brown pike conger; Daggertooth pike conger)

Synonyms: Muraena bagio; Muraenesox baggio; Muraenisox bagio; Muraenosox bagio
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Wikipedia Abstract

The pike eel (Muraenesox bagio) is a species of eel found throughout the Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean and Australia. In Australia, it is known in the southwest, in Western Australia, around the tropical north of the country, and south to the coast of New South Wales. The average pike eel grows to 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) in length and is a nocturnal species. A nocturnal predator, the pike eel has been known to dive down to depths of 330 feet to search for prey. A strong and muscular fish, the pike eel is a delicacy in South East Asia and features in various dishes.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceano-estuarine

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Audubon National Wildlife Refuge IV 14642 North Dakota, United States
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Predators

Orectolobus maculatus (Wobbegong)[2]
Tursiops aduncus (Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Huveneers, C., Otway, N. M., Gibbs, S. E., and Harcourt, R. G. 2007. Quantitative diet assessment of wobbegong sharks (genus Orectolobus) in New South Wales, Australia. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 1272–1281.
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0