The Philippine mottled eel (Anguilla luzonensis) is an eel in the family Anguillidae.[3] It was described by Shun Watanabe, Jun Aoyama, and Katsumi Tsukamoto in 2009.[4] It is a tropical eel known from the Pinacanauan River system on Luzon Island (from which the species epithet is derived), in the Philippines. The eels spend most of their lives in freshwater but migrate to the ocean to breed.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Anguillidae |
| Genus: | Anguilla |
| Species: | A. luzonensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Anguilla luzonensis Watanabe, Aoyama & Tsukamoto, 2009
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References
edit- ^ Pike, C.; Crook, V.; Jacoby, D.; Gollock, M. (2020). "Anguilla luzonensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T18435966A176497159. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T18435966A176497159.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Synonyms of Anguilla luzonensis Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Anguilla luzonensis at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Watanabe, S., J. Aoyama and K. Tsukamoto, 2009 (Mar.) [ref. 30611] A new species of freshwater eel Anguilla luzonensis (Teleostei: Anguillidae) from Luzon Island of the Philippines. Fisheries Science (Tokyo) v. 75: 387-392.
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