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Eel scientific name Ayah Rebhi Hilles1, Syed Mahmood2* and Ridzwan Hashim1
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia
Corresponding author:
Ayah Rebhi Hilles, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, International Islamic
University Malaysia, 25200 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, Email:
Short Communication
Asian swamp eel usually determined in freshwater regions like
paddy discipline and it’s far local to the tropical and subtropical regions
of India, China, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia
. It is usually determined in torpid moving. It is nocturnal,
and constantly burrows into the dust and small moist spaces
Itconsumes extraordinary sorts of invertebrate and vertebrate prey
consisting of frogs and fish [3]. Asian swamp eel considers as a
sequential hermaphrodite as all all of them born and mature as
ladies then later they rework into males
There are 24 species of Asian swamp eel (as proven in
the Table1) beneathneath 4 genera (Macrotrema, Monopterus,
Ophisternon and Synbranchus) that are beneathneath Synbranchidae
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dienbienensis ND Asia Vietnam ND ND [11]
Monopterus
digressus Blind eel Asia India (Kerala) 16.1cm [12]
Monopterus eapeni Malabar Swamp
Eel Asia India (Kerala) 16cm ND [13]
Monopterus
fossorius
Malabar swamp
eel Asia India (Kerala) 23cm [14]
Monopterus
hodgarti
Indian spaghettieel Asia India 22cm ND [15]
Monopterus
ichthyophoides Scaled swamp eel Asia India 18.7cm [16]
Monopterus
indicus
Bombay swamp
eel Asia India
(Maharashtra) 8.5cm [17]
Monopterus roseni ND Asia India (Kerala) 176mm [18]
Ophisternon
aenigmaticum
Obscure swamp
eel Central America Guatemala 80cm [19]
Ophisternon afrum Guinea swamp eel Eastern Central
Atlantic Guinea, Bissau 53.5cm [20]
Ophisternon
bengalense Bengal dust eel Asia and Oceania India,
Australia 100cm [21]
Ophisternon
candidum Blind cave eel Oceania Western
Australia 40cm [22]
Current Trends in Biomedical Engineering & Biosciences
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Ophisternon
gutturale
Australian swamp
eel Oceania Northern
Australia 60cm [23]
Ophisternon
infernale Blind swamp eel Central America Mexico 40cm [24]
Synbranchus
lampreia ND South America Brazil 116.7cm [25]
Synbranchus
madeirae ND South America Madeira 100cm [26]
Synbranchus
marmoratus
Marbled swamp
eel
Central and South
America Mexico 150cm [27]
Monopterus
luticolus
ND Africa Cameroon 20.3cm [28]
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