Anguillidae

Celebes longfin eel

Anguilla celebesensis

Females sink five hundred meters daytime rising at night

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Southeast Asia
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The Celebes longfin eel (Anguilla celebesensis) is an eel in the family Anguillidae. It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856. It is a tropical eel known from freshwaters in the Western Pacific, including Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, and Western and American Samoa.