Macrognathus aral

Macrognathus aral, the one-stripe spiny eel, is a small fish from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar. It usually is found in running and stagnant waters of freshwater and brackish waters. It is 63.5 cm (25.0 in) in length.^[2]

Macrognathus aral
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Synbranchiformes
Family:	Mastacembelidae
Genus:	Macrognathus
Species:	M. aral
Binomial name
Macrognathus aral (Bloch & J.G Schneider, 1801)
Synonyms[2]
Rhynchobdella aral Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Rhynchobdella dhanashorii Hora, 1921 Macrognathus jammuensis Malhotra & Singh Dutta, 1975

After mating, eggs are deposited by attaching on to algal masses.^[2]

In 2008, researches showed that what was once considered to be Macrognathus aral in Sri Lanka, is actually a separate species, Macrognathus pentophthalmos.^[1][3][4]

References

1. Vishwanath, W. (2010). "Macrognathus aral". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T12596A3363924. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T12596A3363924.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Macrognathus aral". FishBase. April 2013 version.
3. "Biodiversity of Sri Lanka: Freshwater Fish diversity of Sri Lanka". biodiversityofsrilanka.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
4. Pethiyagoda R, et al. (12 November 2008). "Zootaxa, The Sri Lankan spiny eel, Macrognathus pentophthalmos (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae), and its enigmatic decline" (PDF). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1931.1.3. ISSN 1175-5326. Retrieved 2015-02-05.

• "Species New to Science: [Ichthyology • 2008] Macrognathus pentophthalmos Gronow | Sri Lankan spiny eel (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae), and its enigmatic decline". novataxa.blogspot.com. 17 August 2011. Retrieved 2015-02-05.