Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, Zootaxa 5330 (2), pp. 201-226 : 206

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2

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DOI

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scientific name

Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844
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2. Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844 View in CoL View at ENA ―Shortfin Eel― Native

Taxonomy. Original description: Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844:178 View in CoL , 202, 209, Pl. 6 (fig. 1) [Sandoway, Malay coast, India; Syntypes: SMF 776 (1)]. Synonyms: Anguilla amblodon Günther, 1867 View in CoL ; Anguilla bleekeri Kaup, 1856 View in CoL ; Anguilla cantori Kaup, 1856 View in CoL ; Anguilla dussumieri Kaup 1856 View in CoL ; Anguilla foochowensis Chu & Jin, 1984 ; Muraena halmaherensis Bleeker, 1863 ; Muraena macrocephala Rapp, 1849 ; Anguilla malabarica Kaup, 1856 View in CoL ; Anguilla malgumora Kaup, 1856 View in CoL ; Anguilla moa Bleeker, 1849 View in CoL ; Anguilla mowa Bleeker, 1852 View in CoL ; Anguilla sidat Bleeker, 1852 View in CoL ; Anguilla spengeli Weber, 1912 View in CoL .

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. First report from the Arabian Peninsula by Attaala & Salim Rubaia (2005); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020:113).

General distribution and Habitat. Indo-West Pacific: Seychelles, Mayotte ( France), Madagascar and Mascarenes ( La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to China and New Britain ( Papua New Guinea), south to northern Western Australia. Freshwater, brackish, marine.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Yemen along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden including Socotra archipelago (Attaala & Salim Rubaia 2005; Freyhof et al. 2020; Zajonz 2020).

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Conservation. Near Threatened (NT).

Remarks. Sometimes split into two subpopulations and listed as the subspecies A. bicolor bicolor in Western Indian Ocean, from East Africa to western Indonesia, and as A. bicolor pacifica in the western Pacific, from Indonesia to China and New Guinea (Heemstra et al. 2022). Fricke et al. (2023) considered Anguilla pacifica Schmidt, 1928 as distinct species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Anguilliformes

Family

Anguillidae

Genus

Anguilla

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Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat 2023
2023
Loc

Anguilla foochowensis

Chu & Jin 1984
1984
Loc

Anguilla spengeli

Weber 1912
1912
Loc

Anguilla amblodon Günther, 1867

Gunther 1867
1867
Loc

Muraena halmaherensis

Bleeker 1863
1863
Loc

Anguilla bleekeri

Kaup 1856
1856
Loc

Anguilla cantori

Kaup 1856
1856
Loc

Anguilla dussumieri

Kaup 1856
1856
Loc

Anguilla malabarica

Kaup 1856
1856
Loc

Anguilla malgumora

Kaup 1856
1856
Loc

Anguilla mowa

Bleeker 1852
1852
Loc

Anguilla sidat

Bleeker 1852
1852
Loc

Muraena macrocephala

Rapp 1849
1849
Loc

Anguilla moa

Bleeker 1849
1849
Loc

Anguilla bicolor

McClelland 1844: 178
1844
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