Scientific Name	Anguilla japonica   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	Temminck & Schlegel, 1846	Depth	0 - M
Chinese	日本鰻鱺	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鰻鱺科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F074　Anguillidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	日本鰻鱺
Max Length	150 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	白鰻、日本鰻、正鰻、白鱔、鰻鱺、土鰻(澎湖)、淡水鰻(澎湖)
Distribution in World	Japan to East China Sea	Distribution in Taiwan	North、Middle、South、HenChun Semiiland、East、LanI & Green IS.
Habitats	Fresh water	Holotype Locality	Japan
Synonyms	Anguilla angustidens, Anguilla manabei, Anguilla nigricans, Anguilla remifera, Muraena pekinensis
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；臺灣常見魚介貝類圖說(下)-魚類(邵主編, 1996)；The Live Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific, Vol.3(FAO,1999)  Cheng, T. S.  Böhlke, J. E. 1949 Böhlke, J. E. 1949 Matsui, I. 1957 Matsui, I. etc. 1959 Matsui, I. etc. 1971 Tabeta, O. etc. 1973 Tabeta, O. etc. 1975 Tabeta, O. etc. 1975 Tzeng, W. N. 1990 Tzeng, W. N. etc. 1992 Ozawa, T. 1992 桑自剛 1992 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993 Chen, Y. L., H. Y. Chen etc. 1994 Tzeng, W. N. 1994 Tzeng, W. N. etc. 1994 Tzeng, W. N. etc. 1995 Cheng, P. W. etc. 1996 邵廣昭 編 1996 陳義雄,方力行 1999 Han, Y. S. etc. 2003 Yamada, Y., A. Okamura, S. Tanaka, N. Mikawa, N. Horie, T. Utoh, A. Akazawa, etc. 2004
Specimen List	ASIZP0058795. ASIZP0060161. ASIZP0060611. ASIZP0060851. ASIZP0061363. ASIZP0062766. ASIZP0068749. ASIZP0068760. ASIZP0068761. ASIZP0068812. ASIZP0068813. ASIZP0068823. ASIZP0068940. ASIZP0068947. ASIZP0069280. ASIZP0069281. ASIZP0070304. ASIZP0071106. ASIZP0071111. ASIZP0074832. ASIZP0076470. ASIZP0076488. ASIZP0076502. ASIZP0077049. ASIZP0077145. ASIZP0077178. ASIZP0078335. ASIZP0080536. ASIZP0804421. ASIZP0804422. ASIZP0807239. ASIZP0807464. ASIZP0914421. ASIZP0914422. ASIZP0917239. ASIZP0917464. FRIP00049. ...List all 73 records...
Barcode	2012-01-15,柯慧玲,CO1,100% 2016-01-26,Chia-Hao Chang,CO1,100% 2016-07-15,Yung-Chieh,CO1,100%
Common Name	Japanese eel; Freshwater eel; Eel
Redlist Status	IUCN Redlist: Endangered(EN)      2012 Redlist of Fresh Water Fishes::CR
Characteristic	Head moderately large, shaped like a blunt awl. Mouth large and protractile. Lower jaw protruded, posterior end of upper jaw behind posterior margin of eye, both upper and lower jaw with teeth. Body cylindrical, elongated like a snake, posterior laterally compressed. Scales small and cycloid, covered by mucus. Pectoral fin small; dorsal, anal and caudal fins united, dorsal fin origin at middle between posterior tip of pectoral fin and anus; vertebrate 100-110. Plain colored, dark brown dorsally, white anteroventrally.
habitats	Catadromous fish, demersal. Eggs hatched in the deep ocean of western Mariana Islands, after driving by the ocean current for 4-5 months, elvers reaches the cost of Taiwan and enter estuaries to rest in middle and lower elevation of rivers. The young take
Distribution	Extensively distributed from Japan to East China Sea, including Taiwan, Korea, China and northern Philippines.
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