Actinopterygii · Anguilliformes
European Eel
Anguilla anguilla
Undergoes a radical multi-stage metamorphosis: a flat, transparent larva drifts across the open ocean for up to three years before transforming into a glass-clear juvenile that swims up rivers.
- Realm
- Freshwater
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1416 licence-filtered records across 90 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (23)
- Argyll Biological Records Dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Artportalen (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Data collected on citizen science web portal www.ornitho.cat (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Freshwater fish records via iRecord - additional species (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Verified marine records from Indicia-based surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Vertebrates (except birds; INNS and otters); Outer Hebrides (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- VIS - Estuarine post 2013 Monitoring, Belgium (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- VIS - Reference Freshwater Fishes Monitoring, Belgium (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- VIS - Specific reference freshwater monitoring in Flanders, Belgium (post 2013) (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)