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Australian Faunal Directory FishBase Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from Australian Faunal Directory    Top | See original &pull 20q v5.145 20180528: Error 301 Moved Permanently http://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/b9182f90-e399-4281-9497-9f9d2377691e/ Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Anguilla&speciesname=bicolor ---> http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Anguilla&speciesname=bicolor http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Anguilla&speciesname=bicolor ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Anguilla&speciesname=bicolor https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Anguilla&speciesname=bicolor ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Anguilla-bicolor.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua) About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments &   Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload   references Fish Watcher Related species Species in    Anguilla Species in    Anguillidae - Classification - Anguillidae Anguilliformes Teleostei Chordata Animalia Anguilla bicolor McClelland , 1844 Indonesian shortfin eel Add your observation in Fish Watcher Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed. Anguilla bicolor   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Google image Anguilla bicolor Picture by Ramani Shirantha Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Teleostei (teleosts) > Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Anguillidae (Freshwater eels) Etymology: Anguilla: Latin, anguilla, .-ae = eel (Ref. 45335 ) . More on author: McClelland . Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Marine; freshwater; brackish; demersal; catadromous (Ref. 51243 ). Tropical; 22°N - 27°S Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri Indo-Pacific: widespread in the tropical Indian Ocean and western Pacific. Known in Australia only from streams in the Kimberley regions of northern western Australia. Africa: widespread but relatively uncommon along east and southeast African coast and Madagascar (Ref. 7248 , 52193 ). Mozambique; Lower Zambezi River (Ref. 39494 ). Most easily confused with Anguilla obscura and the surest way to distinguish them is by the count of vertebrae (Ref. 9828 ). Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm Max length : 123 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 6371 ); common length : 65.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2871 ); max. reported age: 20 years (Ref. 48660 ) Short description Morphology | Morphometrics Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 240-245; Anal spines : 0; Anal soft rays : 200 - 220; Vertebrae : 105 - 115. Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Migratory species which breeds in the ocean (Ref. 52331 , 79840 ). Lives in fresh water areas as an adult, in estuaries and seas as young (Ref. 12693 ). Descends to the sea to spawn. Inhabits freshwater streams and pools, preferring marshy habitats (Ref. 41236 ). Found in rivers and creeks, commonly over rock bottoms and in deeper pools. Seldom occurs in large rivers (Ref. 6028 ). Restricted to lowland (coastal) reaches of river systems (Ref. 7248 ). Feeds on small fishes, crustaceans and mollusks. Reported to breed east of Madagascar; the south equatorial current probably carries the eel larvae and elvers towards the east coast of Africa where local coastal currents guide the elvers to suitable rivers which they invade and they stay there until sexually mature, when they return to their breeding grounds (Ref. 13337 ). Caught with various types of nets. Sometimes used in the aquarium trade (Ref. 6028 ). Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators 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. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2013 (Suppl. 27):1-663. (Ref. 94476 ) IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )   Near Threatened (NT)  (A2bcde); Date assessed: 11 August 2019 CITES Not Evaluated CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans   Harmless Human uses Fisheries: minor commercial FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Electrophoreses Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. Sounds Ciguatera Speed Swim. type Gill area Otoliths Brains Vision Tools E-book | Field guide | Identification keys | Length-frequency wizard | Life-history tool | Point map | Classification Tree | Catch-MSY | Special reports Check for Aquarium maintenance | Check for Species Fact Sheets | Check for Aquaculture Fact Sheets Download XML Summary page | Point data | Common names | Photos Internet sources AFORO (otoliths) | Alien/Invasive Species database | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes : genus , species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome , nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | National databases | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go , Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record Estimates based on models Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201 ): 26.5 - 29.1, mean 28.3 °C (based on 1098 cells). Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00076 (0.00037 - 0.00155), b=3.17 (3.00 - 3.34), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  3.6   ±0.50 se; based on food items. Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (tmax=20). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  High to very high vulnerability (74 of 100). Price category (Ref. 80766 ):   Unknown . Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 58.7 [34.4, 111.3] mg/100g; Iron = 0.801 [0.472, 1.318] mg/100g; Protein = 18.8 [17.0, 20.8] %; Omega3 = 0.29 [0.14, 0.60] g/100g; Selenium = 150 [74, 289] μg/100g; VitaminA = 13.3 [3.1, 51.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.925 [0.650, 1.373] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies. 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