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Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Actinopterygii 
Infraclassis : Teleostei 
Ordo : Anguilliformes 
Familia : Anguillidae 
Genus : Anguilla 
Species : A. anguilla 
Linnaeus, 1758

   

Conservationis status

CR

In summum discrimen adducta (IUCN 3.1)^[1]

Synonyma

*Muraena anguilla Linnaeus, 1758

• Anguilla vulgaris (Shaw, 1803)

Territorium

distribución natural por los ríos de Europa

Anguilla anguilla est piscis anadromus Oceani Atlantici mariumque et fluviorum ei tributariorum. Haec species olim crebrius reperta est. Nostris diebus rapidissime decrescit propter obstacula migrationum, obsidia parasitorum hominumque, mutatione climatica. Ad usum cibarium anguillae iam diu in fluminibus piscinisque coluntur.

Fontes antiquiores

• c. 1335 : Maynus de Mayneriis, Opusculum de saporibus (Lynn Thorndike, "A Medieval Sauce-Book" in Speculum vol. 9 (1934) p. 188 JSTOR; cf. Terence Scully, "The Opusculum de saporibus of Magninus Mediolanensis" in Medium aevum vol. 54 (1985) p. 196 JSTOR)

Recentiora

• Ashifa Kassam, "‘This is an endangered species’: calls to take eels off the European menu" in The Guardian (12 Martii 2023)

Praecepta culinaria

• 1381 : Diversa servicia no. 75 (Constance B. Hieatt, Sharon Butler, edd., Curye on Inglysch [Londinii: Oxford University Press, 1985] pp. 59-79) ("For to make elys in bruet")
• saec. XIV exeunte : Utilis coquinario no. 1 (Constance B. Hieatt, Sharon Butler, edd., Curye on Inglysch [Londinii: Oxford University Press, 1985] pp. 61-91) ("eles in counfy")
• 1654 : Iosephus Cooper, The Art of Cookery Refin'd and Augmented, containing an Abstract of Some Rare and Rich Unpublished Receipts of Cookery collected from the Practise of that Incomparable Master of These Arts, Mr. Jos. Cooper, Chiefe Cook to the Late King. Londinii: R. Lowndes (p. 31, 63-64 apud Google Books) ("How to stew an ele ... How to roast a large eele")

• Anguilla in galantina

Situs scientifici:  • ITIS • NCBI • Biodiversity • Encyclopedia of Life • IUCN Red List • WoRMS: Marine Species • FishBase • INPN France