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Moringuidae (Worm or spaghetti eels)
Eponymy: Colonel Charles Seton Guthrie (1808–1875) of the Bengal Engineers, a unit in the army of the Honourable East India Company (1828–1857), was a wealthy man and accumulated an impressive collection of Mughal art and artefacts as well as a famous [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: McClelland.
Milieu: milieu / Klimaatzone / Diepte / verspreidingsgebied
Ecologie
; brak water demersaal. Tropical
Asia: Gangetic estuary in India (ref. 94476), Bangladesh (Kar et al. 2017).
Grootte / Gewicht / Leeftijd
Maturiteit: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 65.0 cm TL mannelijk / geslacht onbekend; (Ref. 4832)
Korte beschrijving
Determinatiesleutels | Morfologie | Morfometrie
Wervels: 115 - 130. Extremely elongate, relatively slender body, with depth 47-50 times in total length; head inconspicuous from rest of body, its length 10-12 times in total length; occipital crest not elevated (Ref. 4832).
Body shape (shape guide): eel-like.
Occurs in estuaries. No evidence that it occurs in marine waters (as of Nov. 2024)
Levenscyclus en paargedrag
Maturiteit | Voortplanting | Paaien | Eieren | Fecunditeit | Larven
Kottelat, M., 2013. The fishes of the inland waters of Southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2013 (Suppl. 27):1-663. (Ref. 94476)
Status op de Rode Lijst van het IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)
Gevaar voor de mens
Harmless
Gebruik door de mens
Visserij: van geen belang
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Fylogenetische diversiteitsindex (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5002 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00102 (0.00046 - 0.00225), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trofisch niveau (Ref.
69278): 3.3 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Kwetsbaarheid van de visserij (Ref.
59153): Moderate to high vulnerability (46 of 100).
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