Animalia > Chordata > Anguilliformes > Anguillidae > Anguilla > Anguilla marmorata

Anguilla marmorata (Eel; Giant long-finned eel; Giant mottled eel; Madagascar mottled eel; Marbled eel; River eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), also known as the marbled eel, is a species of tropical anguillid eel that is found in the Indo-Pacific and adjacent freshwater habitats.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  24.857 lbs (11.275 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  40 years
Migration [2]  Catadromous

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Poecilia reticulata (millions fish)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bothriocephalus claviceps[5]
Bothriocephalus travassosi[5]
Phyllotrema microrchis[5]
Prosorhynchus fujianensis[5]
Tubanguia anguillarum[5]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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.
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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