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Bengal spaghetti-eel

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ950922 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bengal spaghetti-eel (Moringua guthriana) is an eel in the family Moringuidae (spaghetti eels). It was described by John McClelland in 1844, originally under the genus Ptyobranchus. It is a tropical eel known from estuaries in the Ganges River, between India and Bangladesh. Males can reach a maximum total length of 65 cm.

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“Bengal spaghetti-eel” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bengal, spaghetti-eel and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bengal spaghetti-eel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.