Distributions and Habitats: Anguillidae FAMILY Anguillidae Rafinesque, 1810 - freshwater eels GENUS Anguilla Schrank, 1798 - freshwater eels Species Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) - common eel Distribution: Western and eastern Atlantic, Baltic Sea, North Sea, White Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Marmara: European seas and adjacent watersheds, spawing and larval migration routes to and from the western Atlantic. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla australis Richardson, 1841 - shortfinned eel Distribution: Southwestern Pacific. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla bengalensis (Gray, 1831) - mottled eel Distribution: Indian Ocean; southeastern Africa; Nepal, India Pakistan and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844 - shortfin eel Distribution: Western Indian Ocean, Africa and India: South African and East African watersheds and islands in Western Indian Ocean (Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes) east to India and Sri Lanka and to Western Australia, north to China. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla borneensis Popta, 1924 - Indonesian longfinned eel Distribution: Bo River, eastern Borneo. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine Species Anguilla celebesensis Kaup, 1856 - Celebes longfin eel Distribution: Western Pacific: Philippines to central Indonesia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla dieffenbachii Gray, 1842 - New Zealand longfin eel Distribution: New Zealand. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla interioris Whitley, 1938 - highlands longfin eel Distribution: New Guinea to Sumatra. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 - Japanese eel Distribution: Western North Pacific. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla luzonensis Watanabe et al., 2009 - Philippine mottled eel Distribution: Pinacanauan River system, tributary of Cagayan River, northern Luzon Island, Philippines. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla malgumora Kaup, 1856 - Indonesian longfinned eel Distribution: Southeastern Asia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 - giant mottled eel Distribution: Africa, Asia, Australia, Indo-West Pacific: South African and East African watersheds and adjacent oceanic waters (including Madagascar and Mascarenes) east to Caroline Islands (Micronesia), Mariana Islands, Gambier Islands and Marquesas Islands, north to southern Japan, south to South Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla megastoma Kaup, 1856 - Polynesian longfin eel Distribution: Western Pacific: New Caledonia to Society and Gambier islands. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla mossambica (Peters, 1852) - African longfin eel Distribution: Western Indian Ocean, southeastern Africa: South African and East African watersheds and adjacent oceanic waters including Madagascar and western Mascarenes. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla nebulosa McClelland, 1844 - African mottled eel Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla obscura Günther, 1872 - Pacific shortfinned freshwater eel Distribution: Western South Pacific, east to Tuamotu Archipelago and Gambier Islands. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla reinhardtii Steindachner, 1867 - speckled longfin eel Distribution: Asia and southwestern Pacific. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Species Anguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817) - American eel Distribution: Western Atlantic north to Newfoundland and Greenland; North, Central and South America; West Indies and in Atlantic and Caribbean draining rivers. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine..