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Scientific Name: Anguilla bengalensis (Gray, 1831)
English Name: Indian mottled eel
Local/Bangla Name: Chitra (চিত্রা), Bamosh (বামোশ), Baush (বাউস)
Bonyfish : Anguilla bengalensis

Labcode: F1608sb92, F2304KL-53

Photo: ABR Lab

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Teleostei
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Anguillidae
Description:
Color of body brownish dorsally mottled with darker brown, belly yellowish. Fins yellowish mottled with brown. Body snake like; cylindrical anteriorly. Mouth slightly oblique extending beyond the eye. Teeth a narrow band, toothless groove between innermost row and outer row on jaws. Vomerine tooth band very narrow posteriorly. Pectoral fins well developed.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Found in hill-streams of Mymensingh (Kangsha, Someswari), known to descend to the Bay of Bengal during raily season.
Environment:
Freshwater, Brackish (Benthopelagic; catadromous)
Comments:
Also found in marine envirment
Main References:

Rahman AKA (2005) Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh. 2nd ed. Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. xviii + 394 pp.

Other References:

Hossain M, Wahab M, Belton B (2012) The Checklist of the Riverine Fishes of Bangladesh. FAN Bangladesh. 1. 29-39.

Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hasan MA, Khondker M and Rahman MM (eds.) (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh. Vol. 23. Freshwater Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 300+xxxi. pp.

IUCN Bangladesh (2015) Red List of Bangladesh Volume 5: Freshwater Fishes. IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp xvi+360

DoF Bangladesh (2023) Album: Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Bangladesh, Dhaka. 200 pp.

Giri SS ed, 2017 Monographs on Threatened Freshwater Fishes of South Asia. SAARC Agriculture Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 305 p.

Mahalder B, Mustafa MG (2013) Introduction to fish species diversity: Sunamganj haor region within CBRMP's working area. Community Based Resource Management Project-LGED, Worldfish, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 75.

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