Philippine mottled eel

The Philippine mottled eel (Anguilla luzonensis) is an eel in the family Anguillidae.^[3] It was described by Shun Watanabe, Jun Aoyama, and Katsumi Tsukamoto in 2009.^[4] 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.

Philippine mottled eel
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Anguillidae
Genus:	Anguilla
Species:	A. luzonensis
Binomial name
Anguilla luzonensis Watanabe, Aoyama & Tsukamoto, 2009
Synonyms[2]
Anguilla huangi Teng, Lin & Tzeng, 2009