Anguilla bicolor McClelland 1844
- Dataset
- Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Anguillidae
- genus
- Anguilla
- species
- Anguilla bicolor
conservation
Conservation. Near Threatened (NT).
description
Economic importance. No commercial importance.
discussion
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.
distribution
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Anguilla bicolor McClelland 1844