Diet Overlap

Anguilla australis (Shortfin eel)
Anguilla dieffenbachii (Longfinned eel)

Common Diet

Paracalliope fluviatilis
Procordulia grayi (Yellow Spotted Dragonfly)
Xanthocnemis zealandica (Common Redcoat Damselfy)

Common Habitat

Australasia
Awarua Wetland
New Zealand
New Zealand Shelf
Oceania - Inland waters
Pacific Ocean
Pacific, Southwest

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Seasonal 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
♦ 2Diet 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