European eel, common eel (Anguilla anguilla) German: Zwei Flussaale.
Date 5 April 1857
Author Aloys Zötl (1803–1887)
Medium gouache and watercolor on vellum
Dimensions 42,9 x 54,3 cm
Inscriptions Caption bottom left: Fische. Tab. 49 - brown pen
Signature and date bottom right: A. Z. pinx. am 5. April 1857
Source/Photographer Galerie Bassenge
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aloys_Z%C3%B6tl_Zwei_Aale.jpg
The European eel or common eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a species of eel, a snake-like, catadromous fish. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of 19 species in their genus, found in the Northern Atlantic south to Mauritius, the Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas and the rivers that feed into these ocean bodies.