Philippine mottled eel

The Philippine mottled eel (Anguilla luzonensis) is an eel in the family Anguillidae.[3] It was described by Shun Watanabe, Jun Aoyama, and Katsumi Tsukamoto in 2009.[4] It is a tropical eel known from the Pinacanauan River system on Luzon Island (from which the species epithet is derived), in the Philippines. The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater but migrate to the ocean to breed.

Philippine mottled eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Anguilliformes
Family:
Anguillidae
Genus:
Anguilla
Species:
A. luzonensis
Binomial name
Anguilla luzonensis
Watanabe, Aoyama & Tsukamoto, 2009
Synonyms[2]
  • Anguilla huangi Teng, Lin & Tzeng, 2009

References
  1. Pike, C.; Crook, V.; Jacoby, D.; Gollock, M. (2020). "Anguilla luzonensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T18435966A176497159. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T18435966A176497159.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Synonyms of Anguilla luzonensis Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Anguilla luzonensis at www.fishbase.org.
  4. Watanabe, S., J. Aoyama and K. Tsukamoto, 2009 (Mar.) [ref. 30611] A new species of freshwater eel Anguilla luzonensis (Teleostei: Anguillidae) from Luzon Island of the Philippines. Fisheries Science (Tokyo) v. 75: 387-392.


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