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Anguilla australis (Shortfin eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The short-finned eel (Anguilla australis), also known as the shortfin eel, is one of the 15 species of eel in the family Anguillidae. It is native to the lakes, dams and coastal rivers of south-eastern Australia, New Zealand, and much of the South Pacific, including New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, Tahiti, and Fiji.
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Infraspecies

Anguilla australis f. australis
Anguilla australis f. occidentalis
Anguilla australis f. orientalis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9.039 lbs (4.10 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  32 years
Migration [2]  Catadromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Awarua Wetland 49421 South Island, New Zealand      
Hattah-Kulkyne NP and Murray-Kulkyne Park National Park II 122831 Victoria, Australia
Lavinia Nature Reserve State Reserve II 17390 Tasmania, Australia    

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Anguilla reinhardtii (Australian longfinned eel)[5]

Consumers

External References

Citations

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♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Seasonal and size-related changes in the food of the short-finned eel, Anguilla australis in Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand, Patrick A. Ryan, Environmental Biology of Fishes Vol. I5, No. 1, pp. 47-58, 1986
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Relationship between turbidity and fish diets in Lakes Waahi and Whangape, New Zealand, John W. Hayes & Martin J. Rutledge, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 25:3, 297-304
♦ 7Donald J. Jellyman (1989): Diet of two species of freshwater eel (Anguilla spp.) in Lake Pounui, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 23:1, 1-10
♦ 8Diet of two species of freshwater eel (Anguilla spp.) in Lake Pounui, New Zealand, Donald J. Jellyman, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1989, Vol. 23: 1-10
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 10Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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