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  • Anguilla bicolor
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Scientific Name Anguilla bicolor    McClelland, 1844
Common Name
Type Locality Sandoway, Malay coast, India.
Synonym(s) Anguilla amblodon, Anguilla bicolor bicolor, Anguilla bicolor pacifica, Anguilla bicolour, Anguilla bicolour bicolour, Anguilla bleekeri, Anguilla cantori, Anguilla dussumieri, Anguilla foochowensis, Anguilla malabarica, Anguilla moa, Anguilla mowa, Anguilla pacifica, Anguilla sidat, Anguilla spengeli, Anguilla virescens, Muraena halmaherensis, Muraena macrocephala, Muraena moa, Muraena virescens
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Size 1200mm or 47.2" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
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Distribution Indo-Pacific: widespread in the tropical Indian Ocean and western Pacific. Known in Australia only from streams in the Kimberley regions of northern western Australia. Africa: widespread but relatively uncommon along east and southeast African coast and Madagascar. Mozambique; Lower Zambezi River. Most easily confused with Anguilla obscura and the surest way to distinguish them is by the count of vertebrae.
Indian Ocean (click on these areas to find other species found there)
Pacific, West Pacific (click on these areas to find other species found there)
African Waters, Zambesi, Lower Zambesi (click on these areas to find other species found there)

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IUCN Red List Category
Near Threatened
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Breeding Reports There is no breeding report.
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Reference Calcutta Journal of Natural History v. 5 (no. 18), pp 178, 202, 209, Pl. 6 (fig. 1).
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Last Update 2025 Jan 01 13:05 (species record created: 2014 Nov 17 04:11)