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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.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
; salobre demersal. Tropical
Asia: Gangetic estuary in India (ref. 94476), Bangladesh (Kar et al. 2017).
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 65.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 4832)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Vértebra: 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)
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
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)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: sin interés
Herramientas
Informes especiales
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5002 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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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). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
3.3 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Low to moderate vulnerability (30 of 100). 🛈 |