Anguillidae

Indian mottled eel

Anguilla bengalensis

A tropical freshwater eel breeding at sea

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The mottled eel (Anguilla bengalensis), also known as the African mottled eel, the Indian longfin eel, the Indian mottled eel, the long-finned eel or the river eel, is a demersal, catadromous eel in the family Anguillidae. It was described by John McClelland in 1844. It is a tropical, freshwater eel which is known from East Africa, Bangladesh, Andaman Islands, Mozambique, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, and Indonesia and recently from Madagascar.