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Indonesian shortfin eel
Anguilla bicolor
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Indonesian shortfin eel
- Scientific
- Anguilla bicolor
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Eels
- Maximum size
- Up to about 1.2 m (total length); commonly 65 cm
- Depth and habitat
- On or near the bottom; also enters brackish water
- IUCN status
- NT · Near ThreatenedNear Threatened (NT), assessed 2019
Description
A long, smooth, round-bodied eel, olive-brown above and paler below, reaching about 1.2 m. It spends most of its life in fresh or brackish water and returns to the sea to spawn; young eels arrive from the ocean as transparent glass eels.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Anguilla-bicolor.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Specimen_of_Anguilla_bicolor_pacifica.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.