Eel
Scientific Name
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Anguilla sp.
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Home
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Tropical through Temperate Waters
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Size
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Up to 13 feet (Slender Giant Moray)
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Animal type
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Fishes
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Predators
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Large fish and seabirds
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Conservation status
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Not Evaluated to critically endangered for the European eel
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Diet
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Fish and Crustaceans
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- There are over 800 species of eels
- Electric eels can give electric shocks for defense, communication, and hunting
- Sometimes eels live together in holes called eel pits
- The majority of eels are nocturnal
- Some freshwater eels return to the sea to breed
- Eel larvae eat marine snow, which are small particles that float in the water
- Some eels are air breathing and have to return to the surface to breathe
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