Animalia > Chordata > Synbranchiformes > Synbranchidae > Ophisternon > Ophisternon bengalense

Ophisternon bengalense (Asian swamp eel; Bengal mudeel; Onegill eel; Onegilled eel; One-gilled eel; Pygmy eel; Swamp eel; Short-tailed eel; Bengal eel )

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Language: Banton; Bengali; Bikol; Danish; Javanese; Kapampangan; Khmer; Kuyunon; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Pangasinan; Sinhalese; Tagalog; Vietnamese

Wikipedia Abstract

The Bengal eel (Ophisternon bengalense) is a species of fish in the Synbranchidae family. It is endemic to freshwater and brackish water rivers and swamps in the Oceania and South Asia. It is normally 100 cm in maximum length. It is also known as Bengal mudeel, one-gilled eel, pygmy eel by different countries.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Diadromous

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Stomachicola muraenesocis[2]

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Gibson, 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