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ON August 8 fifteen eels were collected in the Mgqakwebe River (27° 22′ E., 32° 50′ S.), a tributary of the Buffalo River, Cape Province. One specimen, a short-fin species 35.5 cm. in length and very dark in colour, differed in appearance from any of this group previously found. A subsequent detailed examination has shown this to be without doubt Anguilla obscura Gunther, 1871, a Pacific species not previously reported west of New Guinea and a notable discovery on the African continent.
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JUBB, R. The Freshwater Eel Anguilla obscura Gunther, 1871, in Southern Africa. Nature 180, 1216 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801216a0
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