kingdomAnimalia >phylumChordata >subphylumVertebrata >infraphylumGnathostomata >superclassActinopteri >classTeleostei >orderAnguilliformes >familyAnguillidae >genusAnguilla >speciesAnguilla rostrata
| Rank | Species |
| Status | accepted |
| Aphia ID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158562 |
| BOLD ID | 27616 |
| NCBI ID | 7938 |
| Common names | American eel, Amerikaanse paling, Amerikanischer Aal, Amerikansk ferskvandsål, anguila americana, anguille d'Amérique, anguille d’Amérique, アメリカウナギ |
| Environments | marine, brackish, freshwater, |
| IUCN Red List | EN |
| Occurrence records | 43,557 | |
| Species level | 43,557 | |
| Absence records | 12 | |
| Species | 1 | |
| Taxa | 1 | |
| Datasets | 66 | |
| Time range | 1862 - 2022 |
| Dropped records | 1,318 | |
| Not marine | 0 | |
| Marine unsure | 0 | |
| No coordinates | 1,312 | |
| Zero coordinates | 6 |
| Marine unsure | 0 | |
| No accepted name available | 0 |
| Field | Missing | Invalid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | 18,524 | 206 | |
| decimalLatitude | 1,248 | 57 | |
| decimalLongitude | 1,248 | 51 | |
| eventDate | 5,716 | 0 | |
| maximumDepthInMeters | 44,390 | 4 | |
| minimumDepthInMeters | 44,357 | 4 | |
| occurrenceStatus | 7,221 | 0 | |
| scientificNameID | 977 | 4 |
| Records on land | 6,301 | |
| More than 20 km from shore | 3,064 | |
| Depth exceeds bathymetric depth | 211 |
| Dataset | Records |
|---|---|
| Apoqnmatulti'k - Bras D'Or Lake Published 2024-11-05 | 24,239 |
| Atlantic Anguilla surveys (1862-2007) Published 2024-09-09 | 5,118 |
| FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19 | 4,495 |
| ICES Eggs and larvae Published 2025-03-20 | 3,463 |
| American eel distribution on the east coast of Canada as inferred from fishing records Published 2021-05-21 | 3,345 |
| TU_Fish Published 2021-02-12 | 453 |
| Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection Published 2025-03-10 | 373 |
| Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence Fishes Published 2023-06-07 | 368 |
| /ACADIA Minas Passage of the Bay of Fundy fish Acoustic Telemetry Published 2023-09-22 | 259 |
| Atlantic Reference Centre Museum of Canadian Atlantic Organisms - Invertebrates and Fishes Data Published 2021-04-16 | 227 |