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SpeciesAnguilliformesAnguillidae
Fish

🐟Japanese eel

Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

Węgorz japoński (Anguilla japonica) – ryba z rodziny węgorzowatych (Anguillidae).

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≈ 1/33rd of your weight
Also called
Anguilla japonica
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.89 kg
Body length
0.4 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Japanese eel

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

Body mass
1.89 kgmaximum recorded
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Body length
0.4 mrecord 1.5 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
1.9 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 Japanese eel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAnguilliformes
  4. ›familyAnguillidae
  5. ›genusAnguilla
  6. ›speciesAnguilla japonica
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. superorderElopomorpha
  3. familyAnguillidae
  4. genusAnguilla
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  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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In other languages
ニホンウナギ (ja), úhoř japonský (cs), 뱀장어 (ko), japansk ål (nb), Węgorz japoński (pl), Japansk ål (sv) … and 19 more languages
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