The Philippine mottled eel (Anguilla luzonensis) is an eel in the family Anguillidae.Anguilla luzonensis at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Shun Watanabe, Jun Aoyama, and Katsumi Tsukamoto in 2009.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. 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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