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- Anguillidae abstract "The Anguillidae are a family of fishes that contains the freshwater eels. The 19 species and six subspecies in this family are all in genus Anguilla. They are catadromous, meaning they spend their lives in freshwater rivers, lakes, or estuaries, and return to the ocean to spawn. The young eel larvae, called leptocephali, live only in the ocean and consume small particles called marine snow. They grow larger in size, and in their next growth stage, they are called glass eels. At this stage, they enter estuaries, and when they become pigmented, they are known as elvers. Elvers travel upstream in freshwater rivers, where they grow to adulthood. Some details of eel reproduction are as yet unknown, and the discovery of the spawning area of the American and European eels in the Sargasso Sea is one of the more famous anecdotes in the history of ichthyology. The spawning areas of some other anguillid eels, such as the Japanese eel, and the giant mottled eel, were also discovered recently in the western North Pacific Ocean.Freshwater eels are elongated with tubelike, snake-shaped bodies. They have large, pointed heads and their dorsal fins are usually continuous with their caudal and anal fins, to form a fringe lining the posterior end of their bodies. They have small pectoral fins to help them navigate along river bottoms. Their scales are thin and soft. Freshwater eels go through physical changes in their bodies when going to and from the ocean for different stages of life.Anguillid eels are important food fish. Eel aquaculture is a fast-growing industry. Important food eel species include longfin eel, Australian long-finned eel, short-finned eel, and Japanese eel. Most eel production historically has been in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, but in recent years, the greatest production has been in China.Seafood Watch, one of the most well-known sustainable seafood advisory lists, recommends consumers avoid eating anguillid eels due to significant pressures on worldwide populations. Several species used as unagi have seen their population sizes greatly reduced in the past half century. Catches of the European eel, for example, have declined about 80% since the 1960s. Although about 90% of freshwater eels consumed in the US are farm-raised, they are not bred in captivity. Instead, young eels are collected from the wild and then raised in various enclosures. In addition to wild eel populations being reduced by this process, eels are often farmed in open net pens which allow parasites, waste products, and diseases to flow directly back into wild eel habitat, further threatening wild populations. Freshwater eels are carnivores and as such are fed other wild-caught fish, adding another element of unsustainability to current eel-farming practices.".
- Anguillidae class Actinopterygii.
- Anguillidae class Neopterygii.
- Anguillidae kingdom Animal.
- Anguillidae order Anguilloidei.
- Anguillidae order Eel.
- Anguillidae phylum Chordate.
- Anguillidae thumbnail Anguillarostratakils.jpg?width=300.
- Anguillidae wikiPageID "2349109".
- Anguillidae wikiPageLength "7823".
- Anguillidae wikiPageOutDegree "83".
- Anguillidae wikiPageRevisionID "671712643".
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Actinopterygii.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink African_longfin_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink African_mottled_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Albert_Günther.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink American_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_anguilla.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_australis.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_australis_australis.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_australis_schmidti.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_bengalensis.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_bengalensis_bengalensis.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_bengalensis_labiata.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_bicolor.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_bicolor_bicolor.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_bicolor_pacifica.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_borneensis.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_breviceps.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_celebesensis.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_dieffenbachii.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_interioris.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_japonica.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_luzonensis.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_marmorata.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_megastoma.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_mossambica.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_nebulosa.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_obscura.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_reinhardtii.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla_rostrata.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilliformes.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Anguilloidei.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Aquaculture.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Canna_Maria_Louise_Popta.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Captive_breeding.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Linnaeus.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Carnivore.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Catadromous.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Anguillidae.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Commercial_fish.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Celebes_longfin_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Alexandre_Lesueur.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Chu_Yuan-Ting.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Coenraad_Jacob_Temminck.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Danian.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Eel_life_history.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Estuaries.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Estuary.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink European_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Fish_farming.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Fish_migration.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Franz_Steindachner.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink François_Alexandre_Pierre_de_Garsault.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Fresh_water.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Giant_mottled_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Gilbert_Percy_Whitley.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Hermann_Schlegel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Highlands_long-finned_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Ichthyology.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Indian_mottled_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Indian_shortfin_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Indonesian_shortfin_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Japan.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Japanese_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Jean_René_Constant_Quoy.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Jin_Yuan-Ting.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Johann_Jakob_Kaup.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Johannes_Schmidt_(biologist).
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink John_Edward_Gray.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink John_McClelland_(doctor).
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink John_Richardson_(naturalist).
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Paul_Gaimard.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Jun_Aoyama_(ichthyologist).
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Katsumi_Tsukamoto.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Korea.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Lake.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Leptocephalus.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Mottled_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Neopterygii.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink New_Zealand_longfin_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Pacific_shortfinned_eel.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Paleocene.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Parasite.
- Anguillidae wikiPageWikiLink Parasitism.