European eel, common eel (Anguilla anguilla) Français : Anguille commune
English: Anguilla europea
Subject: Anguilla (Fish), Eels
Tag: Fish
Date 1849
Author Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny (1806–1876)
Source/Photographer
Français : M. Charles D'Orbigny (1849) Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle. Atlas., Paris: MM. Renard, Martinet et Cie.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_46739_Anguille_commune.jpeg
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.