Indian mottled eel (Anguilla bengalensis) is a saltwater, freshwater, brackish species recorded in Malaysia.
Scientific name: Anguilla bengalensis · Water: Saltwater, Freshwater, Brackish
Size: up to 200 cm
The Indian mottled eel is an anguillid that lives mostly in fresh water but also in estuaries and in the sea in early life and near maturity, keeping to mud and to deep rock pools in rivers. It is the commonest eel of Indian inland waters and is highly prized as food, with a good export market for both live elvers and eels. Maximum length is about 200 cm total length, commonly about 80 cm. It is a commercial species, is a game fish and is considered a likely future aquaculture species. Trophic level is 3.8, fishing vulnerability very high at 86 of 100, and resilience very low. IUCN lists it as near threatened.
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