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Common names: European eel, Evropeiskiy ugor', Rechnoi ugor'
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Winkler, H.M., K. Skora, R. Repecka, M. Ploks, A. Neelov, L. Urho, A. Gushin and H. Jespersen, 2000
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Abundant along the coasts of the Baltic, from it enters all the tributaries, penetrating Lakes Onega and Ladoga, Pal'ozero, Lishmozero, theMoscow Volkhov R. through the Neva. May also be found in the lower reaches of the Pechora (Ref. 593). Juveniles were released into Lake Seliger and thereafter individuals were recorded in the Volga basin in the regions of Tver, Rybinsk, Kostroma, the Samara Reservoir and the Moscow River (Ref. 26334). This has been translocated to areas within the country for stocking in open waters and apparently dispersed to other areas as well, however, it failed to establish self-sustaining populations (Ref. 45022). Also reported from White Sea in the eastern Atlantic (Ref. 86838). Also Ref. 683, 55804. EurRus
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Main Ref: Reshetnikov, Y.S., N.G. Bogutskaya, E.D. Vasil'eva, E.A. Dorofeeva, A.M. Naseka, O.A. Popova, K.A. Savvaitova, V.G. Sideleva and L.I. Sokolov, 1997
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Anguille d'Europe, Anguila europea, 欧洲鳗鲡, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Anguillidae (Freshwater eels)
Etymology: Anguilla: Latin, anguilla, .-ae = eel (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; freshwater; brackish; demersal; catadromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 0 - 700 m (Ref. 54218). Temperate; 4°C - 20°C (Ref. 2059); 75°N - 8°N, 82°W - 50°E (Ref. 42249)

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Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology