Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



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Fiji'. 7l'. Aii(/iii!l<t (iKst rails. 



Eels are essentially marine fishes, and tliouji'h this and the Lon^i'-fiinuMl P]el 

 probably spend the g-reater ])art of their lives in fresh-water lakes or rivers, they 

 deseend to the sea for brecHJing jjurjioses. 



ANGUILLA REINHARDTII Steindachner (Long-finned Eel). 



AiKjulUd relnhdrdtii Steind., Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Iv, 1S()7, ]). 15, text fig. 

 (head); Ogil., Edib. Pish. N.S.W,. 1898, p. 187 and P.L.S., N.S.W., xxii, 

 1898, p. 767; Stead, Edib. Fish. X.8.W., 1008, p. 31, pi. viii; Ronghley, 

 Fish. Aust., 191(i, p. 2'2. 



Fig. 73. Aiipuillii n liihiirdUI. 



Not suftici(Mitly a])preeiated as food, but its freedom from small bones is an 

 estimable (piality. "Have them spitch-eoek'd — oi- ste^'d — they're too oily when 

 fried!" 



Family CONGRIDAE. 



CONGER Houttuyn, 1764 (eonger). 



? CONGER WILSONI Bloch & Schneider (Conger Eel), 



G:jmnof}wra.r wiUoni Bl. & Sehn., Syst. lehth., 1801, p. 529. 

 Comjer wihonif Cast., P.Z.S., Viet., i, 1872, p. 193. 



