Back to search
AnimaliaNot EvaluatedacceptedspeciesAcceptedRestricted
Anguilla rostrata

Anguilla rostrata

American eel(+8)·(Lesueur, 1817)

GBIF:168752696

0countries
0year

PROFILE

Species Profile

Habitat

Marine Freshwater

Export occurrence data

Darwin Core Archive (ZIP)

GEOGRAPHY

Distribution Map

Occurrence Map

Loading map…

Tiles © GBIF Maps API | Map powered by MapLibre GL

REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(3)

Chinese part of the Yellow Sea(CN)
introduced
Chinese part of the Eastern China Sea(CN)
introduced
Chinese part of the South China Sea(CN)
introduced

DATA

Occurrence Datasets

Loading datasets…

Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 7 languages.

engAmerican eelengnldAmerikaanse palingnlddeuAmerikanischer AaldeudanAmerikansk ferskvandsåldanspaanguila americanaspa+4 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 7 languages.

engAmerican eel
eng
Source: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
nldAmerikaanse paling
nld
Source: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. <em>VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001.</em> Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.
deuAmerikanischer Aal
deu
Source: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. <em>VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001.</em> Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.
danAmerikansk ferskvandsål
dan
Source: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
spaanguila americana
spa
Source: Nelson, J.S.; Crossman, E.J.; Espinosa-Pérez, H.; Findley, L.T.; Gilbert, C.R.; Lea, R.N.; Williams, J.D. (2004). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada and Mexico Special Publication. American Fisheries Society, 29 American Fisheries Society: Bethesda. ISBN 1-888569-61-1. 386 + CD-Rom pp.
fraanguille d'Amérique
fra
Source: Nozères C., Archambault D., Chouinard P.-M., Gauthier J., Miller R., Parent E., Schwab P., Savard L., and Dutil J.-D. 2010. Identification guide for marine fishes of the estuary and northern Gulf of St. Lawrence and sampling protocols used during trawl surveys between 2004 and 2008. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2866: xi + 243 p
fraanguille d’Amérique
fra
Source: Nelson, J.S.; Crossman, E.J.; Espinosa-Pérez, H.; Findley, L.T.; Gilbert, C.R.; Lea, R.N.; Williams, J.D. (2004). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada and Mexico Special Publication. American Fisheries Society, 29 American Fisheries Society: Bethesda. ISBN 1-888569-61-1. 386 + CD-Rom pp.
engfreshwater eel
eng
Source: Bermuda Biodiversity Database
jpnアメリカウナギ
jpn
Source: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL).

IDENTIFIERS

External Identifiers(1)

To GenBank (149114 nucleotides; 59303 proteins)

NCBI:txid7938

UNKNOWN

Occurrences with images

CITATIONS

References(6)

  • 1

    Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).

    additional source
  • 2

    Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002.

    additional source
  • 3

    Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1).

    ecology sourceDOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  • 4

    Lutaenko, K.A.; Furota, T.; Nakayama; S.; Shin, K.; Xu, J. (2013). Atlas of Marine Invasive Species in the NOWPAP Region. Beijing: NOWPAP DINRAC (Northwest Pacific Action Plan, Data and Information Network Regional Center). 189 pp.

    additional source
  • 5

    McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

    additional source

    • Source Information

    WRiMS

    WRiMS

    checklist

    The World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS, https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced) records which marine species in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS, https://www.marinespecies.org, https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/347) have been introduced deliberately or accidentally by human activities to geographic areas outside their native range. It excludes species that colonized new locations naturally (so called ‘range extensions’), even if in response to climate change. The dataset is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each taxon: the scientific name, higher classification, stable identifiers linking to taxon and scientific name information, taxonomic status, and nomenclatural status, the vernacular names, the region of introduction and associated country, as well as the year of the first introduction (first collection) and/or last assessment/observation in this region, coarse habitat information, and the pathway(s) of introduction and invasion stage. We have released this dataset under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY). If you have any questions regarding this dataset, don’t hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata.

    Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced on 2026-06-01. doi:10.14284/347 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

    CC BYPublished 6/1/2026View dataset
    GBIF Usage Key
    168752696
    Dataset Key
    0a2eaf0c-5504-4f48-a47f-c94229029dc8
    Origin
    source
    Backbone Key
    5212956
    Taxon ID
    urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158562
    Last Crawled
    6/10/2026
    Last Interpreted
    6/10/2026
    View on GBIFSource Reference