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Anguillidae Rafinesque 1810

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Central Luzon State University, Nueva Ecija, Philippines & National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, 1133 15 St. NW, Washington D. C., USA

Description

FAMILY Anguillidae

Anguilla borneensis Popta, 1924; Native; Borneo Eel; Found in river basins of Southern Mindanao Island; Kottelat 2013, Shirotori et al. 2016; VU

Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844; Native; Bicolor Eel; Found in wetlands and river basins across the Philippines. Most likely to be the subspecies Anguilla bicolor pacifica; AUM 9819, NMST-P 72123-24; Kottelat 2013, Aoyama et al. 2015, Shirotori et al. 2016; NT

Anguilla celebesensis Kaup, 1856; Native; Celebes Longfin Eel; Found in river basins of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao Island groups; Kottelat 2013, Aoyama et al. 2015, Shirotori et al. 2016; DD

Anguilla interioris Whitley, 1938; Native; Highlands Long-Finned Eel; Found in river basins Visayas and Mindanao Island groups; Kottelat 2013, Shirotori et al., 2016; DD

Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846; Native; Japanese Eel; Found in northern and eastern river basins of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao Island groups; Kottelat 2013, Shirotori et al. 2016; EN

Anguilla luzonensis Watanabe, Aoyama & Tsukamoto, 2009; Native; Luzon Eel, Philippine Mottled Eel; Found mainly in river basins of Northern Luzon, but also found in Visayas and Mindanao Island groups; NSMT-P 90000-28; Watanabe, Aoyama, Tsukamoto, 2009, Kottelat 2013, Shirotori et al. 2016, Canon et al. 2021; VU

Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824; Native; Giant Mottled Eel, Indo-Pacific Eel; Found in watersheds and river basins across the Philippines; USNM 318419; Jamandre et al. 2007, Kottelat 2013, Shirotori et al. 2016, Canon et al. 2021; LC

Notes

Published as part of Jamandre, Brian Wade, 2023, Freshwater fishes of the Philippines: a provisional checklist, pp. 151-181 in Zootaxa 5301 (2) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5301.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8030274

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rafinesque
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anguilliformes
Family
Anguillidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Anguillidae Rafinesque, 1810 sec. Jamandre, 2023

References

  • Kottelat, M. (2013) The fishes of the inland waters of Southeast Asia: A catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 27, 1 - 663.
  • Shirotori, F., Ishikawa, T., Tanaka, C., Aoyama, J., Shinoda, A., Yambot, A. V. & Yoshinaga, T. (2016) Species composition of anguillid glass eels recruited at southern Mindanao Island, the Philippines. Fisheries Science, 82, 915 - 922. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12562 - 016 - 1030 - 8
  • Aoyama, J., Yoshinaga, T., Shinoda, A., Shirotori, F., Yambot, A. V. & Han, Y. - S. (2015) Seasonal changes in species composition of glass eels of the genus Anguilla (Teleostei: Anguillidae) recruiting to the Cagayan River, Luzon Island, the Philippines. Pacific Science, 69 (2), 263 - 270. https: // doi. org / 10.2984 / 69.2.8
  • Watanabe, S., Aoyama, J., Tsukamoto, K. (2009) A new species of freshwater eel Anguilla luzonensis (Teleostei: Anguillidae) from Luzon Island of the Philippines. Fisheries Science, 75, 387 - 392. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12562 - 009 - 0087 - z
  • Canon, K. L., Nieves, P. M., Mendoza Jr., A. B., Nolial, J. C. C., Celestial, N. C., Mediario, R. O., Bradecina, R. G., Avila, T. N. & Kubota, S. (2021) Occurrence of Anguilla luzonensis in the tributaries along the Lagonoy Gulf, Philippines. Journal of Fisheries Science, 3 (1), 8 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.30564 / jfsr. v 3 i 1.3010
  • Jamandre, B. W., Shen, K. N., Yambot, A. V. & Tzeng, W. N. (2007) Molecular phylogeny of Philippine freshwater eels Anguilla spp. (Actinopterygi: Anguilliformes: Anguillidae) inferred from mitrochondrial DNA. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 14, 51 - 59.