Peter Henry John Castle
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LOCATION: Wellington, New Zealand
Reader in Zoology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Author of numerous papers on eels.
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Eel, (order Anguilliformes), any of more than 800 species of teleost fishes characterized by elongate wormlike bodies. Anguilliforms include the common freshwater eels as well as the voracious marine morays. Regardless of their final habitat, all eels probably pass through the leptocephalus stage,…
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