European eel, common eel (Anguilla anguilla) English: Anguilla vulgaris (Turton)
Subject: Anguilla
Tag: Fish
Date	1886
Author	Harry Govier Seeley  (1839–1909)
Source/Photographer	
English: Seeley, H. G. (1886) Fresh-Water Fishes of Europe : a History of their Genera, Species, Structure, Habits, and Distribution, London: Cassell & Company, Limited
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_48140_Anguilla_vulgaris_(Turton).jpeg
The European eel or common eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a species of eel, a snake-like, catadromous fish. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of 19 species in their genus, found in the Northern Atlantic south to Mauritius, the Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas and the rivers that feed into these ocean bodies.