White ricefield eel

Monopterus albus has a scaleless cylindrical snake-like body with tapered tail and small eyes.

The White ricefield eel lives in the demersal, potamodromous, freshwater, brackish, depth range 3 - m environment.

Nothing known about the White ricefield eel

Common names

Andtong beng in Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ)
Antong in Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ)
Asian swamp eel in English
Belobryukhiy ugor' in Russian (русский язык)
Belut in Bahasa Indonesia
Belut in English
Belut in Malay (bahasa Melayu)
Boluk in Batak
Boluk in Toba, Batak
Con lu'o'n in Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
I'en in Lao (ພາສາລາວ)
I'en in Laotian
Ian in Lao (ພາສາລາວ)
Ian in Laotian
Lai in English
Lai in Hawaiian
Lai in Thai (ไทย)
Lươn in Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
Ostasiatischer Kiemenschlitzaal in German (Deutsch)
Pa lai in English
Pa lai in Lao (ພາສາລາວ)
Pa lai in Laotian
Pla lai in Thai (ไทย)
Rice (paddy) field eel in English
Rice eel in English
Rice paddy eel in English
Rice swampeel in English
rice-field eel in Unknown
Risål in Danish (dansk)
Risål in Swedish (Svenska)
Suoankerias in Finnish (suomen kieli)
Swamp eel in English
Ta-unagi in Japanese (日本語)
Täpläkutsa in Finnish (suomen kieli)
Welut in Javanese (basa Jawa)
white ricefield eel in English
Wong sin in Cantonese
Wong sin in Chinese (中文)
ปลาไหล in Thai (ไทย)
タウナギ in Japanese (日本語)
鱔魚 in Mandarin Chinese
鳝鱼 in Mandarin Chinese
黃鱔 in Mandarin Chinese
黄鳝 in Mandarin Chinese
드렁허리 in Korean (한국어)

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Order : Synbranchiformes
Family : Synbranchidae
Genus : Monopterus
Species : Monopterus albus
Authority : Zuiew, 1793