"based on Neslon, Grande and Wilson 2016. In some classifications, the family Cyematidae of bobtail snipe eels is included in the Anguilliformes, but in the FishBase system that family is included in the order Saccopharyngiformes. The electric eel of South America is not a true eel, but is a South American knifefish more closely related to the carps and catfishes. Phylogeny based on Johnson et al. 2012. Freshwater eels (""unagi"") and marine eels (conger eel, ""anago"") are commonly used in Japanese cuisine; foods such as ""unadon"" and ""unajū"" are popular, but expensive. Eels are also very popular in Chinese cuisine,"
"the Environment has officially added Japanese eel to the “endangered” category of the country’s Red List of animals ranging from “threatened” to “extinct”. Although about 90% of freshwater eel consumed in the U.S. 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"
"Sea. These types of unfavorable larval transport are thought to reduce the recruitment success of the Japanese eels that reach river mouths as glass eels. The Japanese freshwater eel produces a fluorescent protein. This protein is the basis of a new test to assess dangerous blood toxins that can trigger liver disease. In the manga and anime series """", in Team Shokugeki, Satoshi Isshiki and Jurio Shiratsu are competing each other with Japanese eel as main ingredient. In various Super Mario games, most notably Super Mario 64 and New Super Mario Bros there is an enemy by the of name"
"Japanese eel The Japanese eel (""Anguilla japonica""; Japanese: 日本鰻 ""nihon'unagi"") is a species of anguillid eel found in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, as well as the northern Philippines. Like all the eels of the genus ""Anguilla"" and the family Anguillidae, it is catadromous, meaning it spawns in the sea, but lives parts of its life in fresh water. The spawning area of this species is in the North Equatorial Current in the western North Pacific to the west of the Mariana Islands. The larvae are called leptocephali and are carried westward by the North Equatorial Current and then"
"eels in the nearby sea are rumored to feed on the corpses of drowned humans – making the eating of these eels verge on cannibalism. In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the European eel, Japanese eel, and American eel to its seafood red list. Japan consumes more than 70% of the global eel catch. The English name ""eel"" descends from Old English ""ǣl"", Common Germanic ""*ēlaz"". Also from the common Germanic are West Frisian ""iel"", Dutch ""aal"", German ""Aal"", and Icelandic ""áll"". Katz (1998) identifies a number of Indo-European cognates, among them the second part of the Latin word for"
"marine snow, before they metamorphose into the glass eel stage. The glass eels then enter the estuaries and headwaters of rivers and many travel upstream. In fresh water and estuaries, the diet of yellow eels consists mainly of shrimp, other crustaceans, aquatic insects, and small fishes. The Japanese eel population, along with anguillid eel populations worldwide, have declined drastically in recent years, presumably due to a combination of overfishing and habitat loss or changing water conditions in the ocean interfering with spawning and the transport of their leptocephali. In the case of the Japanese eel, spawning is likely affected by"
"the nationally threatened eels in their products, sparking outrage by conservationists. New Zealand longfin eel The New Zealand longfin eel (""Anguilla dieffenbachii"") is the largest and the only endemic freshwater eel species in New Zealand. (The others are the native Shortfin eel, ""Anguilla australis,"" also found in Australia, and the naturally introduced Australian Longfin eel ""Anguilla reinhardtii)"". Longfin eels are long-lived, migrating to the Pacific Ocean near Tonga to breed at the end of their lives. They are good climbers as juvenile and so are found in streams and lakes a long way inland. An important traditional food source for"
"the Japanese eel appear to spawn in the upper few hundred meters of the ocean, based on the recent catches of their spawning adults, eggs, and newly hatched larvae. The timing of catches of eggs and larvae and the ages of larger larvae have shown that Japanese eels only spawn during the few days just before the new moon period of each month during their spawning season. After hatching in the ocean, the leptocephali are carried westward by the North Equatorial Current and then northward by the Kuroshio Current to East Asia. In the open ocean, the larvae feed on"
"New Zealand longfin eel The New Zealand longfin eel (""Anguilla dieffenbachii"") is the largest and the only endemic freshwater eel species in New Zealand. (The others are the native Shortfin eel, ""Anguilla australis,"" also found in Australia, and the naturally introduced Australian Longfin eel ""Anguilla reinhardtii)"". Longfin eels are long-lived, migrating to the Pacific Ocean near Tonga to breed at the end of their lives. They are good climbers as juvenile and so are found in streams and lakes a long way inland. An important traditional food source for Māori, longfin eels are threatened and declining but still commercially fished."
"Pacific shortfinned eel The Pacific shortfinned eel (""Anguilla obscura""), also known as the Pacific shortfinned freshwater eel, the short-finned eel, and the South Pacific eel, is an eel in the family Anguillidae. It was described by Albert Günther in 1871. It is a tropical, freshwater eel which is known from western New Guinea, Queensland, Australia, the Society Islands, and possibly South Africa. The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater, but migrate to the Pacific Ocean to breed. Males can reach a maximum total length of 110 centimetres, but more commonly reach a TL of around 60 cm. The"
"Asian swamp eel The Asian swamp eel, swamp eel, rice eel, or white ricefield eel (""Monopterus albus"") is a commercially important, air-breathing species of fish in the family Synbranchidae. Originating in the waters of East and Southeast Asia, it has been identified as an invasive species in the North American Everglades. The Asian swamp eel is a freshwater eel-like fish belonging to the family Synbranchidae. This family is native to the fresh, brackish, tropical, and subtropical waters of Asia, but is now present in West Africa and North, Central, and South America. Its taxonomy, however, is incorrect. Though ""Monopterus albus"""
"Gymnothorax polyuranodon The freshwater moray eel (""Gymnothorax polyuranodon"") is a species of moray eel that is native to the Indo-Pacific region, including Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the northern coastline of Australia, and various islands in the western Pacific. Other common names include the many-toothed moray, spotted freshwater moray, blackspotted moray, and tiger freshwater moray. ""Gymnothorax polyuranodon"" was named by Pieter Bleeker in 1853. The species can reach a maximum length of 1.5 metres (4.9 feet), but it is rarely seen larger than 1 metre (3 feet). Its colouration is yellow or light tan, covered with dark"
"kilogram and once exceeded 5000 HKD per kilogram. Eel is also popular in Korean cuisine and is seen as a source of stamina for men. The European eel and other freshwater eels are eaten in Europe, the United States, and other places. Traditional east London foods are jellied eels and pie and mash, although their demand has significantly declined since World War II. In Italian cuisine eels from the Valli di Comacchio, a swampy zone along the Adriatic coast, are especially prized along with freshwater eels of Bolsena Lake. In 2010, Greenpeace International added the American eel, European eel, and"
"Pacific spaghetti eel The Pacific spaghetti eel (""Gorgasia japonica"") is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Tokiharu Abe, M. Miki and Minoru Asai in 1977. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from the northwestern and southwestern Pacific Ocean, including Japan (from which its species epithet is derived) and New Zealand. It dwells at a maximum depth of . It is non-migratory, and inhabits sand flats near reefs. Males can reach a maximum total length of ; the diameter of the body is approximately 10 millimetres. The Pacific spaghetti eel's diet"
"option. Indian mud moray eel The Indian mud moray, ""Gymnothorax tile"", is a moray eel found in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Hamilton in 1822, and is also commonly known as the freshwater moray or freshwater snowflake eel. It lives in marine conditions, but travels to fresh water for breeding and spawning. When kept as pets, Indian mud morays actually thrive better in brackish water, rather than pure fresh water. It is said to reach a length of about . These eels can live up to 30 years. The species is characterized by a"
"consists of zooplankton. Pacific spaghetti eel The Pacific spaghetti eel (""Gorgasia japonica"") is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Tokiharu Abe, M. Miki and Minoru Asai in 1977. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from the northwestern and southwestern Pacific Ocean, including Japan (from which its species epithet is derived) and New Zealand. It dwells at a maximum depth of . It is non-migratory, and inhabits sand flats near reefs. Males can reach a maximum total length of ; the diameter of the body is approximately 10 millimetres. The Pacific"
"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 better-known sustainable seafood advisory lists, recommends consumers avoid eating anguillid eels due to significant pressures on worldwide populations. Several species used as"
"Japan, and Indo-Malayan Archipelago. It is one of the common fish found mainly in Asia, from India, Southern China to Malaysia and Indonesia. The fish is an important protein source for people in the northeastern part of Thailand. In Asia, the swamp eel is wide-ranging, occurring in both tropical and temperate climates. Swamp eels live in ditches, ponds, streams, and rice paddies. The preferred environment for the Asian swamp eel includes a wide variety of freshwater-like shallow wetlands, stagnant waters, marshes, streams, rivers, ditches, canals, lakes, reservoirs, and ponds. While they prefer fresh water, they are also able to tolerate"
"Japanese eel to its seafood red list. ""The Greenpeace International seafood red list is a list of fish that are commonly sold in supermarkets around the world, and which have a very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries."" The US government deems eels population and the commercial industry was worth $12 million in Maine in 2017. The eel was a cheap, nutritious and readily available food source for the people of London; European eels were once so common in the Thames that nets were set as far upriver as London itself, and eels became a staple for London's"
"they begin to mature and become silver eels. The silver eels then migrate out of fresh water into the ocean and start their long journey to their spawning area. Adult Japanese eels migrate thousands of kilometers from freshwater rivers in East Asia to their spawning area without feeding. The spawning area of this species was discovered in 1991 by collecting small leptocephali about 10 mm in size, and then in 2005 the same team of Japanese scientists at the University of Tokyo found a more precise location of spawning based on genetically identified specimens of newly hatched preleptocephali only 2"
"to 5 days old in a small area near the Suruga Seamount to the west of the Mariana Islands (14–17° N, 142–143° E). Since then, more pre-leptocephali have been collected at sea, and even Japanese eel eggs have been collected and genetically identified on the research vessel. The collections of eggs and recently hatched larvae have been made along the western side of the seamount chain of the West Mariana Ridge. Mature adults of the Japanese eel and giant mottled eel were captured using large midwater trawls in 2008 by Japanese scientists at the Fisheries Research Agency. The adults of"
"origin, the Asakura district in the now defunct """", integrated into Yabu, Hyōgo. The pulverized mature fruits (""peppercorns"" or ""berries"") known as ""Japanese pepper"" or ""kona-zanshō"" () are the standard spice for sprinkling on the ""kabayaki-unagi"" (broiled eel) dish. It is also one of the seven main ingredients of the blended spice called ""shichimi"", which also contains red chili peppers. Finely ground Japanese pepper, ""kona-zanshō"", is nowadays usually sold in sealed packets, and individual serving sizes are included inside heat-and-serve broiled eel packages. While red chili pepper is never used on eel, otherwise, in many usages, the Japanese red chili"
"Lesser thrush eel The lesser thrush eel, also known as the common worm eel and the spaghetti eel, (""Moringua microchir"") is an eel in the family Moringuidae (spaghetti/worm eels). It was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1853. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from East Africa, Samoa, the Ryukyu Islands, and the southern Great Barrier Reef. It typically dwells at a depth range of 3–20 m, with juveniles inhabiting estuaries and rivers, adult females leading a benthic lifestyle in shallow oceanic waters, and adult males living in the pelagic zone. Adults breed offshore. Males can reach a"
"plant matter, and detritus. In captivity, they only rarely eat plant matter. Fire eel The fire eel (""Mastacembelus erythrotaenia"") is a relatively large species of spiny eel. This omnivorous freshwater fish is native to in Southeast Asia but also found in the aquarium trade. Although it has declined locally (especially in Thailand) because of this trade and overfishing for food, it remains common overall. The fire eel is not a true eel, but an extremely elongated fish with a distinctive pointed snout and underslung mouth. It is part of a group of fishes called spiny eels that also includes tire"
"Indian mud moray eel The Indian mud moray, ""Gymnothorax tile"", is a moray eel found in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by Hamilton in 1822, and is also commonly known as the freshwater moray or freshwater snowflake eel. It lives in marine conditions, but travels to fresh water for breeding and spawning. When kept as pets, Indian mud morays actually thrive better in brackish water, rather than pure fresh water. It is said to reach a length of about . These eels can live up to 30 years. The species is characterized by a black"
"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"
"the skewered eel is first broiled, plain, into what is known as , then steamed, before being flavored and grilled again; as a result, it turns out more tender and flakier after grilling. In the Kansai region (western Japan), the eel is slit down the belly and directly grilled without being steamed, often still in their original length, and called . The outer skin could be tough and chewy, so eel cooked in Kansai style may be placed between layers of hot rice, for the steam to help tenderize it. In the Kansai area, the eel is often called ""mamushi"","
"a maximum total length of 45 centimetres, but more commonly reach a TL of 35 cm. ""G. nystromi ginanago"" is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from Japan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 40 centimetres. Gnathophis nystromi Gnathophis nystromi (known commonly as the conger eel) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder in 1901, originally under the genus ""Leptocephalus"". It contains two subspecies, ""Gnathophis nystromi nystromi"", and ""Gnathophis nystromi ginanago"", which was described by Hirotoshi Asano in"
"depth of just ten feet (three meters) or less. It is found in shallow marine coastal waters, estuaries, river mouths, and for short distances upriver. For years, it had been the accepted wisdom that the so-called ""freshwater"" moray eel was actually a marine species which, unlike most other morays, is able to tolerate water with lower salinity levels, and could even live in fresh water, but only for short periods of time. However, there is a growing body of evidence which suggests that ""Gymnothorax polyuranodon"" is a catadromous species of moray eel, in which the animal spends much of its"
"earlier than the European eel and begin migrating into the estuaries along the east coast of North America between February and late April at an age around one year and a length around 60 mm. The spawning area of the Japanese eel, ""Anguilla japonica"", has also been found. Their breeding site is to the west of the Suruga seamount (14–17°N, 142–143°E), near the Mariana Islands. and their leptocephali are then transported to the west to East Asia by the North Equatorial Current. In June and August 2008, Japanese scientists discovered and caught matured adult eels of ""A. japonica"" and ""A."
"Swamp eel The swamp eels (also written ""swamp-eels"") are a family (Synbranchidae) of freshwater eel-like fishes of the tropics and subtropics. Most species are able to breathe air and typically live in marshes, ponds and damp places, sometimes burying themselves in the mud if the water source dries up. They have various adaptations to suit this lifestyle; they are long and slender, they lack pectoral and pelvic fins, and their dorsal and anal fins are vestigial. They lack scales and a swimbladder, and their gills open on the throat in a slit or pore. Oxygen can be absorbed through the"
"wide distribution, lack of known threats, and lack of observed population decline, the IUCN redlist currently lists the Sailfin eel as Least Concern. Sailfin eel The Sailfin eel (Paraletharchus pacificus, also known commonly as the Pacific sailfin eel in Mexico) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Raymond Carroll Osburn and John Treadwell Nichols in 1916, originally under the genus ""Letharchus"". It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central Pacific Ocean (from which its species epithet is derived), including Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panama. It is known to dwell"
"Earthworm eel Chaudhuriidae, is a family of small freshwater eel-like fish related to the swamp eels and spiny eels, commonly known as the earthworm eels. The known species are literally the size and shape of earthworms, thus the family name. While one species, ""Chaudhuria caudata"" was reported from the Inle Lake by Nelson Annandale in 1918, the others have been only recently reported (since the 1970s), all in the eastern Asia area, from India to Korea. Neither the dorsal nor anal fins have spines, and in ""Nagaichthys"" and ""Pillaia"" they have fused with the caudal fin; in the other genera,"