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Anguilla anguilla (cropped)🐟

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SpeciesAnguilliformesAnguillidae
Fish

🐟European eel

Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758)

ヨーロッパウナギ（欧羅巴鰻、学名：Anguilla anguilla）は、ウナギ科に属する魚類の1種。ヨーロッパに分布する唯一のウナギであり、古代から食用魚として利用された長い歴史を持つが、個体数は近年著しく減少している。2007年にワシントン条約の付属書に記載され、2009年から貿易取引が制限されている。

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Measurements
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≈ 1/17th of your weight
Also called
eel
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
3.63 kg
Body length
0.35 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
88 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the European eel

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3.63 kgrecord 6.6 kg · FishBase
AnAge
Other figures ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

By sex

  • Female2.85 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length
0.35 mrecord 1.22 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
Other figures ↓

Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.33 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
88 yearsrecord 23 years · FishBase
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
3.55
FishBase
Details ↓

Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
Details ↓

From trophic level 3.55 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
FishBase
Details ↓

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
3.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for European eel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAnguilliformes
  4. ›familyAnguillidae
  5. ›genusAnguilla
  6. ›speciesAnguilla anguilla
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. superorderElopomorpha
  3. familyAnguillidae
  4. genusAnguilla
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderElopomorpha
  10. familyAnguillidae
  11. genusAnguilla
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Europäischer Aal (de), Anguille d'Europe (fr), ål (nb), Anguilla anguilla (it), úhoř říční (cs), Anguilla anguilla (es) … and 25 more languages
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