Giant Mottled Eel
Anguilla marmorata
Photo: Yung-Lun Lin / CC BY 4.0 / iNaturalist
The giant mottled eel is a large, blotch-patterned eel living in rivers and spring-fed waters of warmer regions. It hides in rock crevices by day and hunts crustaceans and fish at night. Sites in Wakayama, Tokushima, Ehime and Nagasaki prefectures are designated Natural Monuments, valued as populations near the northern edge of the species' range.
- Scientific name
- Anguilla marmorata
- Group
- Fish
- Prefectures
- Wakayama, Tokushima, Ehime, Nagasaki
- 日本語
- オオウナギ
- 简体中文
- 花鳗鲡
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The Giant Mottled Eel is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Wakayama, Tokushima, Ehime, Nagasaki.
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