Nature, 22 August 1912

Nature 89, 633-636 (22 August 1912) | doi:10.1038/089633a0

The Reproduction and Spawning-Places of the Fresh-Water Eel (Anguilla Vulgaris)

JOHS. SCHMIDT                          

Abstract

A MONG the apodal fishes of the British Museum described by Kaup in 1856 was a transparent, tape-like fish of about 8 cm. in length, similar to the uppermost specimen in Fig. 1 here reproduced. This received the name Leptorphaius brevirostris, and came from the Straits of Messina, practically the only place in Eutope from which Leptocephali were known. Without knowing it, Kaup had given the first ocontribution to the oquestion of the reproduction of the eel.