A 4-year-old girl in India noticed a “translucent” creature in a water tank and helped scientists discover a new species, a ...

The ricefield eel (Monopterus albus) is the only protogynous hermaphrodite freshwater fish. How this species changes its sex ...

Other notable freshwater species that are threatened are the European eel, which is critically endangered, and several freshwater crustacean species in the Southeast United States, Sayer said.

Saving Species — Series 3, Freshwater Eels and Mitten Crabs 22 / 24 Brett Westwood looks at the invasive Chinese mitten crab, plus freshwater eels. BBC Radio 4 ...

Sure enough, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Ariosoma tamilicum, or the Tamil short-tail conger. Tamil short-tail conger eels have “stout” bodies reaching up to 12 ...

Intrigued, they took a closer look at the animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Ophichthus cuulongensis, or Mekong’s estuary snake eel. An Ophichthus cuulongensis ...

Aside from fishing pressures, freshwater eels’ migration to the ... including efforts to list more endangered eel species on the Cites agreement – a multilateral treaty to safeguard threatened ...