Study Material

The present collections from the Australian region include about 550 leptocephali, but only one of these leptocephali is referable to the genus Anguilla; two others are glass-eels or virtually unpigmented elvers. These three specimens were collected on the east coast of Australia. Eleven other Anguilla leptocephali were taken in the New Caledonia-Solomons-New Hebrides area as part of a collection of about 550 specimens.